ABSTRACT
The students I was traveling with recalled from their readings that the British had left India in 1947. For a long time, Calcutta served as the British capital. But the original villages that comprised the city were Kolkata, Sutanuti, and Gobindopur. Decades after the British departure, reverting the name of the city to Kolkata, a derivation of one of the original villages, marked a move to reassert the indigenous identity of the city and its populace. Naturally, they tried to match what they had learned with what they started witnessing upon landing in the ‘City of Joy.’
