Writer's Buildings

Writer's Buildings

c. 1904
14.10x
9.05cm

The "Writer's Building" in then Calcutta is from where British India was governed from the later 1700s until 1857. "Writers" were recruits who came from England to make their fortunes with the British East India Company; some of them became fabulously wealthy "nabobs." Around the Writers' Building grew Dalhousie Square, the business centre of the city since the 19th century.