Great City of Calcutta In British Era, 1918 Postcard
A 1918 postcard with a sketch of the great city of Calcutta (Kolkata) in the British Era. The postcard shows a coloured sketch of the city’s commercial center in the 1900s. In 1690, an English merchant, Job Charnock, established a trading post in the riverside village of Sutanuti which, together with neighbouring Govindapur and Kolikata, grew into the great city of Calcutta.
Under the British East India Company’s rule, Calcutta developed into a flourishing commercial center over the next 200 years. Its imposing Gothic buildings, churches, boulevards, and a harbour, turned a cluster of villages into a magnificent city. Simultaneously, intellectual and cultural life bloomed, with a renaissance of Bengali art and literature. The decision to shift India’s capital city to New Delhi in 1911 and the urban decay of the 1960s diminished some of the city’s affluence. The imperial grandeur looks much faded now from what it was once. Click on the photo for better view.
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Did you know- Calcutta was once known as the city of palaces.
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