Posts Tagged "Raja Nabakrishna Deb"

The Babus of Calcutta

19th Century – Emergence of the Bengali Elite Class – “The Babus of Calcutta” and the first wave of Nationalism. The babus were the high-class, rich Bengali people during the late 18th and 19th century, who came into being as a result of intimate interaction with the British in Kolkata. Raja Nabakrishna Deb of Shobhabazar Rajbari was the earliest known ‘Babus’ of Calcutta. An erudite...