Land of seven rivers: History of India's Geography (34 page)

21.
India, A History
, John Keay. Harper Collins, 2000.

1.
European Calcutta
, Dhrubajyoti Banerjea. UBSPD, 2008.

2.
European Calcutta
, Dhrubajyoti Banerjea. UBSPD, 2008.

3.
As cited in
In the
Footsteps of Stamford Raffles
, Nigel Barley. Penguin, 1991.

4.
The Mapmakers
, John Noble Wilford. Pimlico, 2002.

5.
The Great Arc
, John Keay. HarperCollins, 2001.

6.
The Mapmakers
, John Noble Wilford. Pimlico, 2002.

7.
Cited from
India,
A History
, John Keay. HarperCollins, 2000.

8.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
, W.H. Sleeman, vol. II,
Asian Education Services (reprinted 1995).

9.
Trees of Delhi
, Pradip Krishen. Dorling Kindersley, 2006.

10.
The Last Mughal
, William Dalrymple. Penguin, 2006.

11.
The Last Mughal
, William Dalrymple. Penguin, 2006.

12.
In yet another act of
cultural vandalism, part of the Saraswati Ghat was renamed after Jawaharlal Nehru in
the nineteen eighties.

13.
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
, Angus Maddison. OECD,
2001.

14.
Development of Indian Railways
, Nalinaksha Sanyal. University of Calcutta,
1930.

15.
Development of Indian Railways
, Nalinaksha Sanyal. University of Calcutta,
1930.

16.
Yakada Yaka
,
The Jam Fruit Tree
and
Once Upon a Tender
Time,
Carl Muller.

17.
Maclean’s Guide to Bombay
, J.M. Maclean, as quoted in
Kipling
Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865–1900
, Charles
Allen. Abacus, 2007.

18.
The Mapmakers
, John Noble Wilford. Pimlico, 2002.

19.
As quoted in
The
Mapmakers
, John Noble Wilford. Pimlico, 2002.

20.
The Story of Asia’s Lions
, Divyabhanusinh Chavda. Marg
Publications, 2008.

21.
The Story of Asia’s Lions
, Divyabhanusinh Chavda. Marg
Publications, 2008.

22.
There are unconfirmed
reports till 1967.

23.
Gazeteer of the Delhi
District, 1883–84, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore (reprinted 2000).

24.
Delhi Metropolitan
, Ranjana Sengupta. Penguin, 2007.

25.
Trees of Delhi
, Pradip Krishen. Dorling Kindersley, 2006.

26.
Trees of Delhi
, Pradip Krishen. Dorling Kindersley, 2006.

27.
http://www.aapravasighat.org/

28.
The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora
edited by Brij Lal; Didier Millet,
2006

1.
Freedom at Midnight
, Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. Vikas Publishing
House (2010 edition).

2.
India after Gandhi
, Ramachandra Guha. Picador India, 2007.

3.
India after Gandhi
, Ramachandra Guha. Picador India, 2007.

4.
‘The Happy
War’,
Time
magazine, 27 September 1948.

5.
Freedom at Midnight
, Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. Vikas Publishing
House (2010 edition).

6.
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
, Angus Maddison. OECD,
2001.

7.
The de jure transfer
would have to wait till August 1963.

8.
‘India: End
of an Image’,
Time
magazine, 29 December 1961.

9.
The ancestral home of
Tristão de Braganza Cunha in the village of Chandor is an interesting place
to visit. It is a beautiful and well-preserved colonial bungalow with a wealth of
Portuguese-era books, artifacts and furniture.

10.
It was first called
North-East Frontier Tracts, then North-East Frontier Agency from 1951 and, finally,
Arunachal Pradesh from 1972. It was initially a Union Territory but became a state
in 1986.

11.
‘India–China Border: Learning from History’, Mohan
Guruswamy,
Economic and Political Weekly
, 27 September 2003.

12.
India after Gandhi
, Ramachandra Guha. Picador India, 2007.

13.
India after Gandhi
, Ramachandra Guha. Picador India, 2007.

14.
‘Sidney Wignall’, Obituary,
The Economist
, 5 May 2012.

15.
Encyclopaedia of Northeast India
, vol. II, H.M. Bareh. Mittal Publications,
2001.

16.
‘Pakistan:
The Ravaging of Golden Bengal’,
Time
magazine, 2 August 1971.

17.
US Consulate (Dacca)
cable, 6 April 1971. It was signed by 21 American officials based in Dacca at that
time and make a desperate plea to the US to stop supporting a military government
that was systematically carrying out massacres.

18.
Lands and Peoples
, vol. IV, Grolier Society, 1956. The estimate for Delhi
may not fully reflect the entire refugee population.

19.
The use of the term
‘colony’ to denote a township or neighbourhood is a curious use
of the term, especially for a country just coming out of colonization. I have not
been able to find a satisfactory explanation for it although many theories
persist.

20.
Gazetteer of the Gurgaon District 1883–84
, Sang-e-Meel
Publications, Lahore (reprinted 2000).

21.
Many of the issues
discussed in this section were discussed in greater detail in a series of columns
that I wrote for the
Business Standard
newspaper between 2009 and 2011.
Also see, ‘Re-imagining Urban India’, Sanjeev Sanyal, in
India 2010
, BS Books, 2010.

22.
The Caged Phoenix
, Dipankar Gupta. Penguin, 2009.

23.
The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective
, Angus Maddison. OECD,
2001.

24.
Welcome to the Urban Revolution
, Jeb Brugmann. 2009.

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