• 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?

Facts on topics related to Jorabagan

Burrabazar

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

Bowbazar

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

Chowringhee

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

Entally

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

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?

Pathuriaghata

• 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?