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 * ...that the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate north of Calcutta?
 * Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan


 * ...that the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?


 * ...that the Esplanade in Calcutta, which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour?
 * Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan


 * ...that construction of ‘Tagore Castle’ in Pathuriaghata, a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?


 * ...that Kumortuli neighbourhood of Calcutta supplies images of Goddess Durga to Indian communities in about 90 countries?


 * ...that Sabarna Roy Choudhury sold to the British, for Rs. 1,300, the land rights of Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur, that ultimately merged to become Calcutta?


 * ...that the unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta?
 * Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan


 * ...that Observatory Hill, Darjeeling, the site of Darjeeling's oldest Buddhist monastery is now home to a Hindu temple?
 * Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan


 * ...that Darjeeling's Rock Garden (pictured) was built to re-attract tourists following the damage to the industry caused by the actions of the Gorkha National Liberation Front?


 * ...that the Darjeeling Ropeway was stopped on 19 October 2003 after four tourists were killed in an accident?


 * ...that Ghum is the highest railway station in India at 2,225 m (7,407 ft)?
 * Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan


 * ...that Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?


 * ...that Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August, 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta?
 * Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan


 * ...that a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata?
 * Expanded an article atarted by Pradiptaray


 * ...that with the publication of Deepnirban in 1876, Swarnakumari Devi became the first woman novelist amongst the Bengali people?


 * ...that Monomohun Ghose became the first Indian practicing barrister in 1867?


 * ...that the Oriental Seminary, established in 1829, was the earliest privately run modern school in Kolkata?


 * ...that Dwarkin developed the hand-held harmonium, a western instrument, to make it suitable for use with Indian music?


 * ...that Ganendranath Tagore established the Jorasanko Natyasala, a private theatre in his own household, in Kolkata in 1865?


 * ...that Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore?


 * ...that Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India?


 * ...that Annette Akroyd an orientalist, is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India?


 * ...that Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football, hockey and cricket?


 * ...that a version of the traditional Bengali panjika, the Hindu astrological almanac, comes with an interactive CD-ROM?


 * ...that Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?


 * ...that Leela Majumdar, author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali?
 * Expanded an article atarted by Hrishikes


 * ...that when Indrajit Gupta, a Communist, became India's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry 'which once policed the Commies'?
 * Expanded an article started by Bakasuprman


 * ...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?


 * ...that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?


 * ...that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
 * Expanded an article started by Bakasuprman


 * ...that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?
 * Nominated by KNM


 * ...that in 1913, the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes?


 * ...that Fort William College, set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages?
 * Expanded an article started by M.Imran


 * ...that bridges carrying India's Grand Trunk Road over the Barakar River were washed away in 1913 and 1946?


 * ...that Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?


 * ...that the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?


 * ...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?


 * …that the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?


 * ...that the Mayurakshi River in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?


 * …that the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracised for marrying the widow of Maharaj Tejendra?


 * …that when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened a secular girls’ school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?


 * ...that after the Battle of Palashi in 1757, Nabakrishna Deb organised a Durga Puja where Lord Clive offered thanksgiving?


 * ...that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?


 * ... that human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur, now home to Kolkata’s latest railway passenger terminal?


 * ...that the Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?


 * ...that Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
 * Expanded an article started by Antorjal




 * ...that Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female doctor (allopath) in South Asia?
 * Expanded an article started by LordGulliverofGalben.


 * ...that Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?


 * ...that Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?


 * ...that when Krishna Mohan Banerjee, a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata, in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare’s school?