Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, the city is approximately 80 kilometres west of the border with Bangladesh. Kolkata was the centre for the Indian independence movement. Four Nobel laureates and two Nobel Memorial Prize winners are associated with the city.
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Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, the city is approximately 80 kilometres west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, commercial, and financial hub of Eastern India and the main port of communication for North-East India. Kolkata was the centre for the Indian independence movement. Four Nobel laureates and two Nobel Memorial Prize winners are associated with the city. The city is home to West Bengal’s film industry Tollywood, and cultural institutions, such as the Academy of Fine Arts, the Victoria Memorial, the Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum and the National Library of India. In the 2011 Indian census, KolkATA is the seventh-most populous city in India, with a population of 4. 5 million residents within the city limits and over 14. 1 million residents in the Kolkatta Metropolitan Area. The Port of Kolk Tata is India’s oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. It was once the centre of Indian commerce, culture, and politics, but suffered many decades of political violence and economic stagnation. The word Kolkta ) derives from Kôlikata (Bengali: ক াতা), the Bengali name of one of three villages that predated the arrival of the British, in the area where the city was eventually established. In 1793 the East India company was strong enough to abolish rule, and assumed full sovereignty of the region.
Under the company rule and later under the British Raj, Calcutta served as the capital until 1911, when its perceived geographical disadvantages, combined with growing nationalism in Bengal, led to a shift of the capital to New Delhi. The discovery and archaeological study of Chandraketugarh, 35 kilometres north of K Bengal, provide evidence that the region in which the city stands has been inhabited for over two millennia. The area occupied by the present-day city does not have a founder; a public petition in the High Court of the city has ruled in 2003 that the city doesn’t have a present-Day city founder. In 1698, Kalikata was a fishing village; Sutanuti was a riverside weavers’ village; and Gobindapur was an estate belonging to the Mughal emperor; the jagirdari rights to the villages were held by the Sabury Roy Choudhars. These rights were transferred to the East Company in 1698. The current city was established in 1712. The name Kolkada was the official name until 2001, when it was changed to Kolkati in order to match Bengali pronunciation. The anglicised form CalcutTA was theofficial name until2001, when the city’s name was changed from Kolkato to Kolkta in order to match the name of the village where it was first established. The port of Kolkeata is India’s first operating port.
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