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Kolkata was the capital of the British Indian Empire until 1911. Throughout the British Raj, the city was a major port and commercial center in the world economy. The Partition of India in 1947 was a major blow to the once flourishing economy during the world wars, it removed most of the hinterland, cutting down the supply of the human resource ...
Kolkata is noted as one of the major centres for industries like the jute, leather industry etc. There are numerous steel plants in the state apart from the alloy steel plant at Durgapur. The centre has established a number of industries in the areas of tea, sugar, chemicals and fertilisers.
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 ]
www.exideindustries.com. Exide Industries Limited (Exide) is an Indian multinational storage battery manufacturing company, headquartered in Kolkata, India. It is the largest manufacturer of lead-acid storage batteries and power storage solutions provider in India. The company has ten international standard factories spread across five states ...
History of Kolkata. Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) was a colonial city. 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. Kolkata grew rapidly in the 19th century to ...
Kolkata, Howrah. Area. • Total. 2,000 km 2 (800 sq mi) The Hooghly Industrial Belt[1][2] or Kolkata Industrial Belt is India's oldest and second largest Industrial area (Silpancalasilpancalati) the banks of the Hooghly river in the north to the south of Triveni-Kalyani, Uluberia-Biralapura 100 km long and 15–10 km wide zone to the ...
The complex is intended to serve as a central leather-tanning business for Kolkata. [3] Bantala has approximately 500 tanneries [4] and the Kolkata one performs 22-25% of all the tanning in India. [5] The state of West Bengal is responsible for about 55% of India's leather exports. As of 2009, about 200 tanneries were relocated to the Kolkata ...
Calcutta School-Book Society. Calcutta Stock Exchange. Calcutta Tramways Company. Carr, Tagore and Company. CESC Limited. Classic (cigarette) Classmate (stationery) Coal India. Cruttenden, Mackillop and Company.