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The British East India Company developed Calcutta as a village by establishing an artificial riverine port in the 18th century CE. Kolkata was the capital of the British India until 1911, when the capital was relocated to Delhi.
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 ...
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.
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.
The University of Calcutta was founded in 1857. Dr. Fredrick John, the education secretary to the then British Government in India, first tendered a proposal to the British Government in London for the establishment of a university in Calcutta, along the lines of London University, but at that time the plan failed to obtain the necessary approval.
A view of Calcutta from Fort William (1807) Plan (top-view) of Fort William, c. 1844. There are two Fort Williams. The original fort was built in the year 1696 by the British East India Company under the orders of Sir John Goldsborough which took a decade to complete. The permission was granted by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.
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.
St. John's Church, originally a cathedral, was among the first public buildings erected by the East India Company after Kolkata (Calcutta) became the effective capital of British India. [1] It is located at the North-Western corner of Raj Bhavan , and served as the Anglican Cathedral of Calcutta till 1847, when the see was transferred to St ...