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Description:OverviewKrishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, to East Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sisir Kumar Bose, son of the barrister and nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose and nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. She is a multifaceted personality—a professor, writer, researcher, broadcaster, social worker and politician. "Lost Addresses" is Krishna's story of her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. It vividly describes Calcutta, Bengal and India in the 1930s and 1940s and the early years after Independence. Krishna’s memories of growing up and coming of age are set in the social, cultural and political milieus of the time. The East Bengal heritage and the life of the Calcutta intelligentsia at its prime feature prominently, but this is no private nor provincial memoir. India and the world were then in great ferment and transition. Krishna re-lives how she experienced World War II, the Quit India movement of 1942, the Bengal famine of 1943-44, the Red Fort trials of the Indian National Army (INA) officers in 1945-46, the Great Calcutta killings of 1946, and Partition and Independence in Delhi in 1947.Illustrated with old photographs, this memoir is a valuable historical record, told in flowing literary style.About the Author Krishna Bose received her MA in English from Calcutta University in 1954. She is the only child of Charu Chandra Chaudhuri, a lawyer and erudite man of letters, and Chhaya Devi Chaudhurani. From 1955 to 1995 Krishna taught English at a leading women's college of Calcutta, where she became Head of Department and then Principal. She then joined politics and was elected Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) three times from the Jadavpur constituency in Greater Calcutta, in 1996 for the Congress and in 1998 and 1999 for the Trinamool Congress. From 1999 to 2004 she was chairperson of the parliamentary standing committee on external affairs. Krishna’s husband, Sisir Kumar Bose (1920-2000), was a freedom fighter in his youth and later a renowned paediatrician. Krishna has written prolifically in Bengali for decades, including noted volumes on Netaji. Her English books include An Outsider in Politics (2008, rev. paperback ed. 2015).About the TranslatorThe book has been translated by Sumantra Bose who is the youngest child of Krishna and Sisir Bose. He is Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he has worked since 1999. Born and raised in Calcutta, Sumantra received his PhD from Columbia University, New York, in 1998 after graduating from Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1992. His books include Transforming India: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy (2013), Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (2007), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (2003), and Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (2002).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lost Addresses: A Memoir of India 1934-1955. To get started finding Lost Addresses: A Memoir of India 1934-1955, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 206

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Publisher: Niyogi Books

Release: 2015

ISBN: 9385285068

Description: OverviewKrishna Bose was born Krishna Chaudhuri on 26 December 1930 in Dhaka, to East Bengali parents settled in Calcutta. In December 1955 she married Sisir Kumar Bose, son of the barrister and nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose and nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. She is a multifaceted personality—a professor, writer, researcher, broadcaster, social worker and politician. "Lost Addresses" is Krishna's story of her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. It vividly describes Calcutta, Bengal and India in the 1930s and 1940s and the early years after Independence. Krishna’s memories of growing up and coming of age are set in the social, cultural and political milieus of the time. The East Bengal heritage and the life of the Calcutta intelligentsia at its prime feature prominently, but this is no private nor provincial memoir. India and the world were then in great ferment and transition. Krishna re-lives how she experienced World War II, the Quit India movement of 1942, the Bengal famine of 1943-44, the Red Fort trials of the Indian National Army (INA) officers in 1945-46, the Great Calcutta killings of 1946, and Partition and Independence in Delhi in 1947.Illustrated with old photographs, this memoir is a valuable historical record, told in flowing literary style.About the Author Krishna Bose received her MA in English from Calcutta University in 1954. She is the only child of Charu Chandra Chaudhuri, a lawyer and erudite man of letters, and Chhaya Devi Chaudhurani. From 1955 to 1995 Krishna taught English at a leading women's college of Calcutta, where she became Head of Department and then Principal. She then joined politics and was elected Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) three times from the Jadavpur constituency in Greater Calcutta, in 1996 for the Congress and in 1998 and 1999 for the Trinamool Congress. From 1999 to 2004 she was chairperson of the parliamentary standing committee on external affairs. Krishna’s husband, Sisir Kumar Bose (1920-2000), was a freedom fighter in his youth and later a renowned paediatrician. Krishna has written prolifically in Bengali for decades, including noted volumes on Netaji. Her English books include An Outsider in Politics (2008, rev. paperback ed. 2015).About the TranslatorThe book has been translated by Sumantra Bose who is the youngest child of Krishna and Sisir Bose. He is Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he has worked since 1999. Born and raised in Calcutta, Sumantra received his PhD from Columbia University, New York, in 1998 after graduating from Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1992. His books include Transforming India: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy (2013), Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (2007), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (2003), and Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (2002).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lost Addresses: A Memoir of India 1934-1955. To get started finding Lost Addresses: A Memoir of India 1934-1955, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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