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Kolkata was the capital of the British India until 1911, when the capital was relocated to Delhi. Kolkata grew rapidly in the 19th century to become the second most important city of the British Empire after London and was declared as the financial (commercial) capital of the British India. This was accompanied by the fall of a culture that ...
By partnering with other academic institutions and historical societies, the Calcutta Historical Society has facilitated interdisciplinary research and encouraged a holistic understanding of Kolkata's history. Preserving and restoring Kolkata's historic buildings, monuments, and landmarks is another aspect of the Calcutta Historical Society's work.
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.
The Black Hole of Calcutta: A Reconstruction. London, Suttonn Publishing Ltd., U.K. Edition, 2003. 272 p. ISBN 978-0750933896. Partha Chatterjee. The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. 425 pp. ISBN 9780691152004. Explores the incident itself and the history of using it ...
Interior of the College Street Coffee House, Kolkata. The history of the Coffee House at College Street can be traced to Albert Hall, [1] which was founded in April 1876. [2] This Albert Hall was the primary residence of Ramkamal Sen, Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal and Secretary of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, in the early 19th century.
Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English-language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata (then Calcutta), the capital of British India. It was the first newspaper printed in Asia , and was published for two years, between 1780 and 1782, before the East India Company seized the newspaper's types and ...
By the 1880s, Calcutta's popular art market was dominated by hand-colored lithographs produced by the Calcutta Art Studio, run by former students of the Calcutta School of Art, alongside English chromolithographs that replicated the Art Studio's works with greater precision and at a fraction of the cost. [11]
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]