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Lal Dighi

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Lal Dighi (meaning Red Pool) is a body of water in the middle of B. B. D. Bagh, earlier known as Tank Square or Dalhousie Square, in the heart of Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal. [1]

21 relations: B. B. D. Bagh, Barun De, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Calcutta Tramways Company, East India Company, Evan Cotton, Gobindapur, Kolkata, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, India, Job Charnock, Kalikata, Kolkata, List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali, Netaji Subhas Road, Kolkata, Sabarna Roy Choudhury, Siraj ud-Daulah, States and union territories of India, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Warren Hastings, West Bengal, World Monuments Fund.

B. B. D. Bagh

B.B.D. Bagh, formerly called Dalhousie Square, is the shortened version for Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh.

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Barun De

Barun De (30 October 1932 – 16 July 2013) was an Indian historian.

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Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya

Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya or Bikash Bhattacharya (Bengali বিকাশ রঞ্জন ভট্টাচার্য্য) is an Indian politician.

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Calcutta Tramways Company

Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) is a state-run company that operates trams and buses in and around Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) in West Bengal, India.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Evan Cotton

Sir Harry Evan Auguste Cotton CIE (24 May 1868 – 7 March 1939), better known as Evan Cotton or H. E. A. Cotton, was a Liberal politician, barrister, administrator, journalist, historian and writer.

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Gobindapur, Kolkata

Gobindapur (গোবিন্দপুর) was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India.

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Gopalkrishna Devdas Gandhi (born 22 April 1945) is a retired IAS officer and diplomat, who was the 22nd Governor of West Bengal serving from 2004 to 2009.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Job Charnock

Job Charnock (–1692/1693) was an employee and administrator of the English East India Company, and traditionally regarded as the founder of the city of Kolkata.

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Kalikata

Kalikata (কলিকাতা) was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly, Calcutta) in India.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali

Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations.

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Netaji Subhas Road, Kolkata

Netaji Subash Road (abbreviated as N. S. Road), previously known as Clive Road, is an important thoroughfare in Central Kolkata that runs in an east to west direction in B. B. D. Bagh area of Kolkata.

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Sabarna Roy Choudhury

The Sabarna Ray Chaudhury (সাবর্ণ রায় চৌধুরী) family were the Zamindar (superior landlords) of the Kolkata (earlier known as Calcutta) area, prior to the arrival of the British.

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Siraj ud-Daulah

Mirza Muhammad Siraj ud-Daulah (مرزا محمد سراج الدولہ, মির্জা মুহম্মদ সিরাজউদ্দৌলা; 1733 – 2 July 1757) more commonly known as Siraj ud-Daulah, was the last independent Nawab of Bengal.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় Shunil Gônggopaddhae) (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian Bengali poet and novelist based in the Indian city of Kolkata.

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Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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World Monuments Fund

World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal_Dighi

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