Lillooah Revisited

A memoir of a bygone era...

Kharagpur, a secluded East Indian Railway Colony during the days of the Raj, was on par with—if not superior to—any place that enjoyed the wealth and camaraderie of a Community that can rival life to the fullest.

A closely knit Railway settlement, situated four miles outside the city of Calcutta in India, Kharagpur was basically home to the European and Anglo-Indian families of staff who were employed by the Railways in its Carriage & Wagon Workshops.

Even though with India's on-the-spot Capital so near at hand, Kharagpur's residents were quite content to remain in the comfort of a private colony, creating Community, and in the knowledge that all their entertainment requirements were available within "a stone's throw" of their homes.

According to Denis E. Whitworth, this small Railway Colony and its Institution offered a lot more than Calcutta did.

Kharagpur Revisited is one man's charming account of life in the 1940s, a slice of his Anglo-Indian history.