Bengal and Italy

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: Paromita Chakravarti & Mario Prayer

Part 1. Encounters in words and sounds: Literature, Music, Performance

- Chapter 1. From Dante to Rabindranath: An Unfolding Renaissance: Sukanta Chaudhuri

- Chapter 2. Rabindranath Tagore as Reflected in the Works of Early-20th-Century Italian Composers: Luisa Prayer

- Chapter 3. Translating Cultures: Italian Dramatists on the Bangla Stage: Paromita Chakravarti

Part 2. Encounters in shapes and images: Architecture, Art, Cinema

- Chapter 4. Neoclassical Architecture in 19th-Century Calcutta and the Case of Bengali Domestic Residences: Monolina Bhattacharyya

- Chapter 5. The Italian Connection to Indian Art in Calcutta: The Contribution of Olinto Ghilardi and Sashi Hesh in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Rituparna Basu

- Chapter 6. Before Neorealism, After Commedia: Tracing an Aesthetic Decalage: Trinankur Banerjee

Part 3. Encounters through experience: Business, Travel, Politics

- Chapter 7. Italy and the Discovery of India: The Early Phase of Italian Foreign Policy in Bengal (1849-1936): Marzia Casolari

- Chapter 8. "The Italian [...] who Comes Here to try his Luck [...] Only Deals in Trade": Italian Traders in Bengal 1850-1950 ca.: Antonella Viola

- Chapter 9. Travels in Italy: Bengali Writings in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Sanjukta Das Gupta

- Chapter 10. Emissaries of Swadeshi: Bengali Internationalists in Inter-War Italy: Mario Prayer

- Postscript. Interview of Consul General Dr. Gianluca Rubagotti with the Editors of the Volume on Continuing Cultural Exchanges Between Italy and Bengal

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