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Bodhisattav Kar and Subhalakshmi Roy: Messing with The Bhadralok: Towards a Social History of Mess-Houses in Calcutta
Bodhisattav Kar and Subhalakshmi Roy: Messing with The Bhadralok: Towards a Social History of Mess-Houses in Calcutta
This project wishes to appreciate the role of the mess-houses as lived sites of the constitution, exercise and contestation of the distance between the metropolis and the mofussil. From extensive interviews and dispersed written accounts, the research would try to recover the fast vanishing histories of the everyday negotiations of identity.
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