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Art Museum Attractions In Kolkata (Calcutta)

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Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River approximately 75 kilometres west of the border with Bangladesh, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. The city is widely regarded as the cultural capital of India, and is also nicknamed the City of Joy. In 2011, the city had a population of 4.5 million, while the population of the city and its suburbs was 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. Recent estimates of Kolkata Metropoli...
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Art Museum Attractions In Kolkata (Calcutta)

  • 1. The Harrington Street Arts Centre Kolkata Calcutta
    The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research. At the time of its foundation, this Society was named as Asiatick Society. In 1825, the society dropped the antique k without any formal resolution and the Society was renamed as The Asiatic Society. In 1832 the name was changed to The Asiatic Society of Bengal and again in 1936 it was renamed as The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Finally, on 1 July 1951 the name of the society was changed to its present one. The Society is housed in a building at Park Street in Kolkata . The So...
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  • 3. Rabindra Tirtha Kolkata Calcutta
    Rabindra Sarobar is a station of the Kolkata Metro. It is situated on Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road at Charu Chandra Avenue. The station is named for Rabindra Sarobar, an artificial lake and the surrounding area of south Kolkata. It is followed by the station Mahanayak Uttam Kumar towards Kavi Subhash and is preceded by Kalighat station towards Noapara and Dum Dum. Rabindra Sarobar Metro Station is considered a popular suicide site.
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  • 5. Ashutosh Museum of Indian Art Kolkata Calcutta
    The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is a public engineering institution established by the government of India in 1951. It was the first of the IITs to be established, and is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. As part of Nehru's dream for a free self-sufficient India, the institute was established to train scientists and engineers after India attained independence in 1947. It shares its organisational structure and undergraduate admission process with sister IITs. IIT Kharagpur has a 8.5 square kilometres campus and is residence to about 22,000 inhabitants. The students and alumni of IIT Kharagpur are informally referred to as KGPians. IIT Kharagpur holds two student festivals: Spring Fest and Kshitij .
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  • 7. Kolkata Kolkata Calcutta
    The Kolkata port Trust is a riverine port in the city of Kolkata, India, located around 203 kilometres from the sea. It is the oldest operating port in India, and was constructed by the British East India Company.The Port has two distinct dock systems - Kolkata Docks at Kolkata and a deep water dock at Haldia Dock Complex, Haldia. In the 19th century, the Kolkata Port was the premier port in British India. After slavery was abolished in 1833, there was a high demand for laborers on sugar cane plantations in the British Empire. From 1838 to 1917, the British used this port to ship off over half a million Indians from all over India — mostly from the Bhojpuri Belt, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu — and take them to places across the world, such as Mauritius, Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, Belize, and th...
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