Kolkata history
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How the magazine of Calcutta’s Presidency College, started in 1914, responded to world politics
Rochona Majumdar Sukanya Sarbadhikary Upal Chakrabarti
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Calcutta’s overlooked urban archives: How did directories and almanacks turn new year into history?
Devasis Chattopadhyay
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How students of Calcutta’s Hindu College created an idea of ‘the people of India’ under British rule
Rosinka Chaudhuri
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Calcutta history: Harry Hobbs, British piano tuner, and forgotten chronicler of the city
Devasis Chattopadhyay
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Remembering P Thankappan Nair (1933-2024), the historian-archivist-bibliographer of Kolkata
Sujaan Mukherjee
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‘Panic Sunday’: The day in 1857 when Wajid Ali Shah was arrested on charges of conspiracy
Sudipta Mitra
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How Calcutta’s first modern drains were built by The Lottery Committee in the early 1800s
Ranabir Ray Choudhury
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Why Kolkata is lamenting the end of a meat shop started by a Hungarian trapeze artist in the 1940s
Priyadarshini Chatterjee
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India’s invaluable dinosaur fossils lie neglected and forgotten in this Kolkata museum
Sebanti Sarkar
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Sex worker, con-woman, serial murderess: The story of Troilokya, who terrorised Calcutta in 1800s
Deepanjan Ghosh
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Forgotten history: How the last Nawab of Oudh built a mini Lucknow in Calcutta
Deepanjan Ghosh
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Calcutta’s dark past: The city was a thriving market for slaves in mid-18th century
Tathagata Neogi
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A unique boat museum in Kolkata pays tribute to Bengal’s rivers and their forgotten traditions
Deepanjan Ghosh
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This video is a left-handed but heartfelt compliment to the slowness of Kolkata
Scroll Staff
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The Lost City: These monuments are a reminder that Kolkata has abandoned many of its heroes
Deepanjan Ghosh