The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

8.3 | The divided city: map of Calcutta.
8.4 | Existing edges: Calcutta.
The Maidan, Calcutta
straight roads through the city, “solving” problems of poverty through
displacement. 32
An intellectual resistance began to be manifest at the beginning of
the nineteenth century in what is referred to as the Bengal Renaissance.
Bengali artists and writers began to express the ambiguity of the relationship
between European and Indian culture that underlies much artistic production
in Calcutta. This movement, which stemmed from the Orientalist