• tradition has it that Warren Hastings hunted with elephants in the jungle in Chowringhee, now a business district in Kolkata, India?

Facts on topics related to Chowringhee

Bowbazar

• the neighbourhood of Bowbazar was the site of Calcutta's first horse drawn tram line (model pictured), opened in 1873?

Dharmatala

• a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala, a neighbourhood in Kolkata, and Barrackpore in November 1830?

Burrabazar

• Burrabazar, in Kolkata, expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market?

Entally

• Entally was home to the poor and the depressed, and a neighbourhood where Mother Teresa started her active life in Kolkata, India?

Cossipore

• the more than two centuries old Gun and Shell Factory at Cossipore, a neighbourhood in north Kolkata, is the oldest surviving factory in the Indian subcontinent?

Jorabagan

• Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan, Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of Kolkata?

Kumortuli

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

Shobhabazar

• in the 250-year-old Durga Puja of Shobhabazar palace, the goddess (statue pictured) was offered homemade sweets because non-Brahmin patrons were not allowed to offer rice?