Sinthee or Sinthi is a neighbourhood of
North Kolkata in
Kolkata district in the
India
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of
West Bengal
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History
The
East India Company
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obtained from the
Mughal emperor
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Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the
Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of
Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent
Nawab of Bengal
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, it purchased these villages in 1758 from
Mir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as ''
Dihi Panchannagram'' and Sinthee was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the
Maratha Ditch.
Geography
Location
Sinthee is surrounded by
South Dum Dum and
Dum Dum
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in the east, Satpukur and Dum Dum Road in the south,
Baranagar in the north,
Cossipore &
Barrackpore Trunk Road in the west.
Police district
Sinthee police station is part of the
North and North Suburban division of
Kolkata Police
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. Located at 145/1 South Sinthi Road, Kolkata-700050, it has jurisdiction over Sinthee neighbourhood/
Ward No. 2 of
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
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.
covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and North Suburban division i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala.
Landmarks
*
Rabindra Bharati University
*
B. T. Road Government Sponsored H. S. School
* Birla Institute of Technology
* Department of
Economics
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,
University of Calcutta
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Transport
Road
B.T. Road passes along the west boundary of Sinthee. Many buses ply through 'Sinthee More' on
B.T. Road. The only bus (Private bus) which enters into Sinthee is 30A (Sinthee Bediapara - Esplanade (Dharmatala), which runs along KC Ghosh Road (Ramakrishna Ghosh Road).
[Google maps] 30 A Bus Stand near Bediapara.
Train
Dum Dum Junction is the nearest railway station of Sinthee.
Dum Dum Metro Station is the neighborhood subway station.
External links
References
{{Kolkata neighbourhoods
Neighbourhoods in Kolkata