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When Job Charnock landed at Sutanati in 1690 the place was no more than an ordinary Bengal village on the banks of the Hooghly. Yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, it was being described as the second city of the British Empire. With the help of archival records, this volume plots the various stages of the journey on the part of the three villages of Sutanati, Kalikata and Gobindapur which collectively came to be called Calcutta (renamed Kolkata).
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The Lord Sahib’s House: While the Government House in Chennai, more than 250 years old, is being demolished to facilitate the construction of a new Legislative Assembly complex, the Raj Bhavan in Calcutta — the Government House of yore where the Viceroy and Governor-General of India resided throughout the 19th Century — is going from strength to strength despite the signs of aging, which have become a part and parcel of the magnificent pile. The ...