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Job Charnock ( / dʒoʊb /; c. 1630 –1692/1693) was an English administrator with the East India Company. He is commonly regarded as the founder of the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata); however, this view is challenged, and in 2003 the Calcutta High Court declared that he ought not to be regarded as the founder. [1]
Job Charnock (died January 10, 1693, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India) was a controversial administrator in the British East India Company who is credited with establishing a British trading post at what is today Kolkata. Arriving in India in 1655/56, Charnock was stationed first at Cossimbazar, north of present-day Kolkata, and then at Patna, in ...
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Discovering Calcutta With Its Founder Job Charnock. 09 Feb 2021 by Pratiti Nath. Through the years Calcutta has developed as a cosmopolitan center by assimilating many cultures. The busy administrative hub of Dalhousie area, in the picture, lies the Telegraph Office. But what shaped this cosmopolitan city is often overlooked.
Aug 24, 2021 · Calcutta was founded on the mud flats of Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges, by the English merchant Job Charnock in 1690. After 1696, Fort William was constructed under the supervision of John Goldsborough.
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The Calcutta High Court ruled in 2003 [7] that Job Charnock, the Englishman generally believed to be the founder of the Calcutta, is not the founder of the city and that hence Kolkata has no birthday.
Aug 24, 2018 · On August 24, 1686, Job Charnock, who was believed to be the founder of Calcutta first came to the village of Sutanuti as a representative of the British East India Company to establish a factory. The city comprised three villages of Kalikat, Gobindapur and Sutanuti, which served as important trading centers in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
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In 2002, the Sabarna Roychowdhury Paribar Parishad filed a PIL before the Calcutta (or should we say Kolkata) high court disputing the recognition historically accorded to Job Charnock as...
