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A Calcutta auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, [1] horse race or similar contest with multiple entrants. It is popular in backgammon , the Melbourne Cup , and college basketball pools during March Madness . [ 2 ]
Garden Reach has a delivery sub post office, with PIN 700024 in the Kolkata South Division of Kolkata district in Calcutta region. Other post offices with the same PIN are K.C Mills and T.G Road. [21] Bartala has a delivery sub post office, with PIN 700018 in the Kolkata South Division of Kolkata district in Calcutta region. Other post office ...
In the last quarter of the 18th century, Calcutta grew into the first major centre of commercial and government printing.For the first time in the context of South Asia it becomes possible to talk of a nascent book trade which was full-fledged and included the operations of printers, binders, subscription publishing and libraries.
An alley beside the post office was the site of the guardhouse that housed the infamous 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta (1756). The General Post Office was designed in 1864 by Walter B. Grenville (1819-1874), who acted as consulting architect to the government of India from 1863 to 1868. Dalhousie Square, Calcutta in 1910 with GPO in the background
The Calcutta Chronicle and General Advertiser was a weekly English-language newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India. [1] It was one of the earliest newspapers in colonial India and was published for four years until it stopped its publication under pressure from the East India Company.
Kolkata, [a] also known as Calcutta [b] (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. [16]
The Calcutta Gazette was founded by Francis Gladwin, an officer in the British East India Company, and an orientalist.Its first issue was published on 4 March 1784. The newspaper became an important medium for the publication of public information.
The siege of Calcutta was a battle between the Bengal Subah and the British East India Company on 20 June 1756. The Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, aimed to seize Calcutta to punish the company for the unauthorised construction of fortifications at Fort William. Siraj ud-Daulah caught the Company unprepared and won a decisive victory.