Biswadeep Chakraborty

Biswadeep Chakraborty is a PhD Research Scholar at the Department of History, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. He was a UGC Project Fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is presently based in Kolkata, researching on the print culture and book history of nineteenth-century Calcutta.Read More...


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Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari

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Lucknow is a city with magnificent history, architecture, culture and literature where once great musicians, poets and artists were patronized by the rich city elites and Nawabs, who made it the mecca of Hindustani art and culture. This book speaks of the rich tradition, history and culture during the final days of Lucknow’s last Nawab, Wajid Ali Shah, through Satyajit Ray’s major motion picture Shatranj Ke Khiladi or The Chess Players. I

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