This article has been written to offer an account of the history of Calcutta’s urban politics and society. By revolving around the evolution of Calcutta Corporation and BPCC, the article intends to show that Calcutta, once the pioneer of anti-colonialist movements, concentrated so much on its urban politics in later colonial period that it not only caused a division within the national political field, but also betrayed India during its struggle for independence. The regionalism that developed in this period, along with the narrow interests of its leaders, undermined Gandhian ‘countervailing hegemony’, opposed to colonialism.

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世界主义、政治和地区主义：加尔各答和印度的独立斗争

本文旨在介绍加尔各答城市政治和社会的历史。本文试图通过围绕加尔各答公司和BPCC的演变，展示曾经反殖民运动先驱的加尔各答，在殖民后期过于集中于城市政治，不仅造成了国家政治内部的分裂。场，但也在印度争取独立的斗争中出卖了。这一时期发展起来的地方主义及其领导人的狭隘利益削弱了甘地主义反对殖民主义的“反补贴霸权”。