"Four Million Plus: The Astounding Human Spectacle Known As Calcutta."

Bates writes of the "huge, sprawling, messy, sun-drunk, smelly, sensuous, fantastic anachronism of a city that lies at the mouth of the great Hooghli River in the Bay of Bengal" and the effects on the city of its "huge mass of soldiery of half a dozen nations." With two photographs. In The Strand (October, 1945, v. 110).

ID: 
cx125
Title: 
"Four Million Plus: The Astounding Human Spectacle Known As Calcutta."
Genre: 
Essay
Page Count: 
5
Word Count: 
ca. 1700
Publisher: 
Strand
Year of Publication: 
1945
Topic: 
Asia
Travel
War
Document Type: 
Eads, Additions to
Full-text Online
Social Commentary
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