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Every Case Tells a Story: The Case of Kolkata

15/06/2015

The Case of Kolkata

BBC Radio 4 - Every Case Tells a Story, The Case of Kolkata

Clive Anderson examines the 2003 case that aimed to decide who the founder of Kolkata was.

Clive Anderson examines a case brought before the High Court of Kolkata in 2003, which aimed to finally decide who that city's founder was.

Clive Anderson looks at a variety of famous and infamous court cases and retells the story that the case brought into the public eye.

In this programme he explores a case brought before the High Court of Kolkata in 2003, which aimed to decide once and for all whether the city of Kolkata had in fact been founded Job Charnock, a representative of the East India Company in 1690, as the history books claimed.

Featuring: William Dalrymple, Krishna Dutta, PT Nair, Vikrant Pachnanda and Deborshi Roychoudhury.

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