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Calcutta, or Kolkata, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly river, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port as well as its sole major riverine port.— Excerpted from Calcutta on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Calcutta

Works

• Calcutta: Past and Present, 1905 by Kathleen Blechynden
• Calcutta, Old and New: A Historical & Descriptive Handbook to the City, 1907 by Henry Evan Auguste Cotton (transcription project)
• Echoes from Old Calcutta: being chiefly reminiscences of the days of Warren Hastings, Philip Francis, and Elijah Impey, 1908 by Henry Elmsley Busteed (transcription project)
• Bengal District Gazetteers - Howrah (1909) (transcription project) by Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley and Monmohan Chakravarti
• The Early History and Growth of Calcutta (1905) by Binaya Krishna Deb (transcription project)
• Thacker's Guide to Calcutta (1906) by Walter Kelly Firminger (transcription project)
• The Beverleys: A Story of Calcutta (1890) by Mary Abbott (external scan)
• "A life lived for India": the Rev. Philip S. Smith of the Oxford University's Mission, Calcutta (1887) (external scan)

Legislation

• The Calcutta Law Reports of Cases Decided by the High Court, Calcutta
  • Volume 1 (Google Books)
  • Volume 2 (Google Books)
  • Volume 3 (Google Books)
• The Trial of Maharaja Nanda Kumar, a Narrative of a Judicial Murder (1886) by Henry Beveridge (transcription project)

Reference

• "Calcutta," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Alipur," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Archdiocese of Calcutta," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)