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4 days ago · May 30, 2024. By Jim Towey. I had much to think about this week as I returned from my 21 st trip to Calcutta. So much has changed there. So much hasn’t. Many historians believe the city, once known as Kalikata, received its name in the late 17 th century when Job Charnock, a British merchant of the East India Company, first settled along the east bank of the Hooghly River near a shrine named ...
5 days ago · The history of the present structure of policing in Kolkata goes back to the colonial times, when the city was known as “ Calcutta “, and was a fledging settlement of the British East India Company. Kolkata ( Calcutta) is regarded to have been founded by an English Merchant Job Charnock, but this has no authentic corroboration.
6 hours ago · Kolkata Street Foods: There's a reason why Kolkata is referred to as the 'City of Joy'. Though historians believe Kolkata (then Calcutta) has been inhabited for thousands of years, its documented history begins only after the arrival of Job Charnock on behalf of the British East India Company in 1690.
4 days ago · 43 Facts About Kolkata (Calcutta) Kolkata, also known as Calcutta, is a city steeped in rich history and vibrant culture. Located in the eastern part of India, Kolkata is the capital of the state of West Bengal and serves as a melting pot of diverse traditions, languages, and cuisines. This bustling metropolis has a population of over 14 ...
4 days ago · A discursive coherence to the representations of Calcutta as cramped and squalid emanates not only from popular-cultural American Orientalism, but from a longer history of imperial practices in colonial India, as discussed by Partha Chatterjee in The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power. The story of the Black Hole of ...
1 day ago · The East India Company ( EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ), and later with East Asia. The company gained control of large parts of the Indian ...
3 days ago · Mother Teresa. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [b] at the age of ...
