Of colonial bungalows and piano lessons : an Indian woman's memoirs /
Of Colonial Bungalows and Piano Lessons can be read as a metaphor -- as an icon -- of the encounter between cultures. The memoir is based on Monica Chanda's recollections between about 1913 and 1927, of life in Calcutta, districts of undivided Bengal, holidays in Kashmir and in Europe. There is...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; EDITOR'S NOTE; A DAY IN NOAKHALI; A MINOR DISASTER AND A MAJOR STORM; RUNGPORE; TOURING WITH FATHER; LIFE AT HOME; SHILLONG DAYS; EXCITEMENT AT SCHOOL; ON TO DACCA; ENTERTAINMENT AT HOME AND ON THE RIVER; CHINSURAH; MOTHER GERMAINE
- AND GIPPY; FAMILY TIES; DADA'S MARRIAGE; PIANO LESSONS AGAIN; THE RIVER ONCE MORE; DAYS WITH DINKO; CALCUTTA YEARS; AN UP-COUNTRY HOLIDAY; A BEAUTIFUL VALLEY AND A PALACE; REFLECTIONS ON A BUREAUCRAT'S LIFE; OUR EUROPEAN SOJOURN; LONDON AND BEYOND; ENDNOTES; FAMILY TREE OF JNANENDRA NATH AND SARALA
- APPENDICESGLOSSARY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; IMAGE CREDITS