Walking Around Kolkata’s College Street

24th of August is the birthday of Kolkata to many. The popular theory states that In 1698 Job Charnock, an administrator of the English East India Company bought three villages- Sutanuti, Kolkata and Gobindapur, from the local landlord Sabarna Roy Chowdhury and joined them to form Calcutta, the capital of British India from 1772 to …

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