The city of dreadful night
(2020)

Nonfiction

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[United States] : Otbebookpublishing, 2020
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9783968652399 (electronic bk.) MWT13543865, 3968652398 (electronic bk.) 13543865
LANGUAGE
English
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Profoundly suspicious of Calcutta's openness to new ideas and values, Kipling turns his attentions to liberalism and policies of native self-government, ridiculing the contribution of the Bengal Legislative Council to the running of the city. The 'ferocious stench' of refuse, bad water, and sewage is taken by Kipling as a metaphor of the corruption of the Council and the city

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