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"Calcutta (Kolkata)" as a book category denotes works—fiction and nonfiction—that are set in, about, or deeply engaged with the life, history and culture of the city formerly called Calcutta and now Kolkata. It signals books that explore the city's distinctive urban textures: its colonial architecture, tram-lined streets, the Hooghly River and Howrah Bridge, bustling markets, neighborhoods, and festivals such as Durga Puja; and its layered social and political histories, from the colonial era and Partition to labor movements, leftist politics, and contemporary urban change. This category encompasses literary portraits, social histories, memoirs, travel writing, crime and noir rooted in the cityscape, culinary and cultural studies, and diasporic reflections—works that foreground Bengali language and cultural practices, memory and nostalgia, communal and class tensions, and the everyday rhythms that make Kolkata a singular metropolitan subject.

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