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Oh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde, risqué theatrical revue created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in the West End in 1970. It ran in London for over 3,900 performances, and in New York initially for 1,314.
Calcutta saw the establishment of several different Western-style higher education institutions this period, including Sanskrit College (1824), Calcutta Medical College (1835), University of Calcutta (1857), Surendranath College (1885) and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (1887), India's first research institute.
There are several villages in that region named after villages in the old country. [1]: ... Czech names in southeast Texas, ... Kolkata, West Bengal: Calcutta, Ohio
That fishing village is now the famous city of Kolkata, which had received this appellation from the idol temple. [1] [2] While both Sutanati and Gobindapur appear on old maps like Thomas Bowrey's of 1687 and George Herron's of 1690, Kalikata situated between the two is not depicted. [3]
This pioneer purchase of zamindari would become a keystone for the British ascendency in South Asia; within a century, the three villages merged with one another and other adjacent territories under the Company administration, to form the modern town of Calcutta, what would serve as the capital of British India till 1911. [7] [13] [14]
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During the British Raj, until 1911, Calcutta was the capital of India. [4] By the latter half of the 19th century, Shimla had become the summer capital. [5] King George V proclaimed the transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi at the climax of the 1911 Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911.
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