{"product_id":"the-last-bunglow-writings-on-allahabad","title":"The Last Bunglow - Writings on Allahabad","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra\u003cbr\u003eTranslator(s)\/ Edito: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2007\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 331\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0143101188\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocated at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati, Allahabad, or Godville-the babu translation of the name that Mark Twain came across-has been frequented by pilgrims for two thousand years. However, it was only towards the latter half of the nineteenth century that Allahabad shed its identity as another dusty north Indian town and emerged as one of the premier cities of the Raj and the capital of the North-West Provinces. This metamorphosis, ironically, was brought about by colonial rule, whose beginnings Fanny Parkes has described at great length. Allahabad was the home not only of the Pioneer newspaper, where Kipling was employed, but also of literary figures like Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’. Its university, one of the oldest in the country, attracted students from far and wide. Visited by the Buddhist scholar Hsiuan Tsang in the seventh century, the city is today visited by spiritual con men and con women, as well as ordinary pilgrims, who come to attend the Magh and Kumbh Melas. As Kama Maclean’s essay shows, far from being an ancient religious festival, the Kumbh Mela, which is held every twelve years, originated as recently as the 1860s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColonial Allahabad, along with the intellectual energy that colonialism generated, has all but disappeared. The bungalows have gone, and so have the last of those who inhabited them. Their descendants can only recall a lost time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1824, Bishop Heber wrote that Allahabad was a desolate and ruinous place. Three years later, Mirza Ghalib compared it to hell, only hell was better. But for Jawaharlal Nehru, Allahabad was where he was born and where he cut his political teeth; for Nayantara Sehgal, it was a model for civilized living; for Ved Mehta, it was, like other Indian cities, ‘a jumble of British, Muslim, and Hindu influences’; for Saeed Jaffrey, it was a place where a good time could be had, while one picked up a decent education; for Gyanranjan, it was a city one could fall in love with in one’s youth; and for I. Allan Sealy, it was his parents’ home town, a reservoir of family lore. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Bungalow: Writings on Allahabad is a memorial to a now forgotten city, whose rise was as meteoric as its fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA NOTE ON THE SELECTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA NOTE ON THE TEXT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescendants: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003eArvind Krishna Mehrotra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHSIUAN TSANG\u003cbr\u003eFrom Buddhist Records of the Western World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRALPH FITCH\u003cbr\u003eFrom Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREGINALD HEBER\u003cbr\u003eFrom Narrative of a Journey Thought the Upper Provinces of India From Calcutta to Bombay, 1924-25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGHALIB\u003cbr\u003eA Letter of Grievance from my wanderings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBAHADUR SINGH BHATNAGAR\u003cbr\u003eFrom Yadgar-i-Bahaduri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFANNY PARKES\u003cbr\u003eFrom Wanderings of a Pilgrim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMATILDA SPRY\u003cbr\u003eOur Pretty Bungalow is now a heap of ruins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBHOLANAUTH CHUNDER\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRUDYARD KIPLING\u003cbr\u003eFrom Something of Myself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDMONIA HILL\u003cbr\u003eThe Young Kipling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARK TWAIN\u003cbr\u003eFrom Following the Equator: A Journey Around the world\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDAVID LELYVELD\u003cbr\u003eSwaraj Bhavan and Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJAWAHARLAL NEHRU\u003cbr\u003eFrom An Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHARIVANSH RAI BACHCHAN\u003cbr\u003eFrom In the Afternoon of Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNARMADESHWAR UPADHYAYA\u003cbr\u003eFrom Snippets form Memory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAMARANATHA JHA\u003cbr\u003eFrom Sarojini Naidu: A Personal Homage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUDHIR KUMAR RUDRA\u003cbr\u003eFrom The Rudra Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRAJESHWAR DAYAL\u003cbr\u003eFrom A Life of Our Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSURYAKANT TRIPATHI NIRALA\u003cbr\u003eBreaking Stones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAYANTARA SAHGAL\u003cbr\u003eFrom Prison and Chocolate Cake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKATE CHISHOLM\u003cbr\u003eBest Bakery in town\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSAEED JAFFREY\u003cbr\u003eFrom An Actor’s Journey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTHER MARY LYONS\u003cbr\u003eRailway colony\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVED MEHTA\u003cbr\u003eFrom Portrait of India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA\u003cbr\u003ePartial Recall\u003cbr\u003eThe Roys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePANKAJ MISHRA\u003cbr\u003eFrom An End Of Suffering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKAMA MACLEAN\u003cbr\u003eOn the Modern Kumbh Mela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGYANRAJAN\u003cbr\u003eVagabond Nights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALLAN SEALY\u003cbr\u003eThree Gandhis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePALASH KRISHNA MEHROTRA\u003cbr\u003eSex and the Small Town\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Arvind Krishna Mehrotra \/ Penguin \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153809043824,"sku":"19915","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/19915.jpg?v=1793914371","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-last-bunglow-writings-on-allahabad","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}