A Walk in Calcutta.

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  • Author(s): Sengupta, Somini
  • Source:
    New York Times. 5/3/2009, Vol. 158 Issue 54664, p1. 0p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      EAST India Co.; CHARNOCK, Job
    • Subject Terms:
      BAY of Bengal; KOLKATA (India); INDIA
    • Abstract:
      ON a rainy day in the late 17th century, an enterprising agent of the British East India Company named Job Charnock sailed along the Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges that flows from high in the Himalayas into the Bay of Bengal, and pitched a tent on its swampy banks. The company bought three riverside villages. Soon they would become a port -- flowing with opium, muslin and jute -- and then, as the capital of British India until 1912, draw conquerors, dreamers and hungry folk from all over the world. Calcutta, India's first modern city, was born. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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