The Truth Revealed: August 24th is not Kolkata’s Birthday
Devarshi Roy Choudhury Once it was a popular belief that an agent of the British East India Company, Job Charnock, had founded the city of Calcutta, now called Kolkata, on August 24, 1690, when he landed at Sutaluti (Sutalootah). Believing it to be true, the West Bengal Government and the people of Kolkata celebrated the […]
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