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Fifteenth Session of the Indian Science Congress. Calcutta 1928. Descriptive Guide Book to Calcutta and Its Environs

1928

The second and fourth members were usually the chiefs of Cossiinbazar and Dacca factories the third was *Afterwards destroyed by the terrible cyclone of September 3o 1737"it the Accomptant ; the fifth and the sixth the Export and Import Warehouse Keepers ; the seventh the Paymaster ; the eighth the Collector or to give him his own name the Zemindar ; the ninth and the last member was the Secr [...] On Wednesday June 16 1756 the Nawab's army reached Chitpore where it was repulsed by the battery of the Bagbazar oupost.* Emboldened by the enemy's retreat to Dumdum the English burnt the bazar in front and to the south of the Fort on the next day. [...] See the ten statements of accounts issued by the Building Committee the first publish* in the Calcutta Gazette of April 26 1787 and the second embodied in the minutes of the Cosultation held in September xi x789 preserved in the Imperial Record Office Calcutta. [...] The Calcutta Chamber of Commerce the progenitor of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce was constituted in 1834 but not on the present site which is associated with the memory of Clive and Francis.* The two Misses Eden the talented sisters of Lord Auckland started the famous Gardens bearing their name at about this time. [...] The Howrah station is on the right bank of the Bhagirathi and is the terminus of the East India and Bengal Nagpur Railways.
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Pages
197
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146342
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I a Short History of Calcutta
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Chapter II Genral Description of Calcutta and Necessary Information
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Chapter III Calcutta’s Climate Seasons and Population
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Chapter IV Principal Educational Institutions
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Chapter V Museums Libraries Societies and Research Institutes
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Chapter VI Other Educational Institutions in and Near Calcutta
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Chapter VII
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Chapter VIII the Romance of Trade
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Chapter IX Places Worthy of a Visit in and Near Calcutta
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Index to Map
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Backmatter
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