"Calcutta, more than New Delhi, is the British-built city of India...In the building of Calcutta, known first as the city of palaces, and later as the second city of the British Empire, the British worked with immense confidence, not adopting the styles of Indian rulers, but setting down in India adaptations of the European classical styles as emblems of a conquering civilisation. But the imperial city, over 200 years of its development also became an Indian cityâĻTo me at the end of 1962, after some months of Indian small-town and district life, Calcutta gave me the immediate feel of the metropolis, with all the visual excitement of a metropolisâĻ Twenty-six years later the grandeur of the British-built cityâĻ could still be seen in a ghostly way, because so little had been added since independence, so little had been added since 1962âĻ The British had built Calcutta and given it their mark. And though the circumstances were fortuitous â when the British ceased to rule, the city began to die."
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V. S. Naipaul, in India: A Million Mutinies Now, 1990, Minerva, p 281-82.
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