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Chinsurah (other)
Hugli-Chuchura, also known as Hooghly-Chinsurah or Chinsurah, is a city and the district headquarter of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal. It may also refer to: Places West Bengal, India * Chinsurah subdivision * Chinsurah Mogra * Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality * Hooghly industrial region * Chuchura railway station * Hooghly railway station Constituencies * Chunchura Assembly constituency * Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency Historical events * Siege of Hooghly * Battle of Chinsurah See also * Hooghly (other) * * {{dab Disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugli-Chuchura
Hugli-Chuchura (), also known by its List of renamed places in India, former names Chinsurah or Hooghly-Chinsurah, is a city of Hooghly district and the district headquarters of Hooghly division in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is one of the densely populated cities of West Bengal. It lies on the bank of Hooghly River, 35 km north of Kolkata, the state capital. It is located in the district of Hooghly and is home to the district headquarters. Chuchura houses the Commissioner of the Burdwan Range. The District Court building of Chinsurah is the longest building in West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Chinsurah is the home to the new state-of-the-art 1000 KW Digital Radio Mondiale, DRM transmitter of Prasar Bharati, Prasar Bharti which enables 'Akashvaani Maitree' to be broadcast across Bangladesh. This special Bangla service of All India Radio was launched in the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinsurah Subdivision
Chinsurah subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview The eastern portion of Chinsurah subdivision is part of the Hooghly Flats, a natural physiographic region, that is a narrow strip of land along the Hooghly River, Hooghly. The interior of the subdivision is part of the Hooghly-Damodar River, Damodar Plain, the agriculturally rich alluvium, alluvial plains lying between the two rivers. The entire area is a part of the Ganges Delta, Gangetic Delta. The Hooghly is a tidal river and has a high west bank. The Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Danes and the British dominated industry, trade and commerce in this area for more than two centuries, and as a result the Hooghly Flats region is highly industrialised. Subdivisions The Hooghly district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions: Administrative units Chinsurah subdivision has 9 police stations, 5 community development blocks, 5 panc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinsurah Mogra
Chinsurah Mogra is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Overview The Chinsurah Mogra CD Block is part of the Hooghly Flats, one of the three natural regions in the district of the flat alluvial plains that forms part of the Gangetic Delta. The region is a narrow strip of land along the 80 km long stretch of the Hooghly River, that forms the eastern boundary of the district. The region has been physiographically influenced by the course of the river. The Hooghly is a tidal river and has a high west bank. The Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Danes and the British dominated industry, trade and commerce in this area for more than two centuries, and as a result this belt is highly industrialised. Geography Mogra is located at . Chinsurah Mogra CD Block is bounded by Pandua and Balagarh CD Blocks, in the north, Chakdaha CD Block, in Nadia district across the Hoog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality
Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality is the civic body that governs Hugli-Chuchura and its surrounding areas ( Bandel) in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality was established in 1865. It was formed by the amalgamation of the Hooghly and Chinsurah towns, primarily with the objective of local governance and tax collection. Cockrell was its first Chairman and G.S. Park its first vice chairman. As the ancient port city of Satgaon declined, Hooghly was founded by the Portuguese in 1537. It was later acquired by the British. Chinsurah was developed as a Dutch settlement in the 17th century. It passed into British hands in exchange for their possessions in Sumatra. Notable residents * Hazi Md Mahashin * Bhudev Mukherjee * Ramgati Nayaratna * Kaji Nazrul Islam * Joytish Ch Ghosh * Gopesh Chandra Mallick (Freedom Fighter) * Bijoy Modak * U.L. Brahmachari (Scientist) * Sambhunath Dey * Narayan Ch Ghosh (Mathematician) * Mano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooghly Industrial Region
The Hooghly Industrial Belt or Kolkata Industrial Belt is India's oldest and second largest Industrial area (Silpancalasilpancalati) the banks of the Hooghly river in the north to the south of Triveni-Kalyani, Uluberia-Biralapura 100 km long and 15–10 km wide zone to the industrial development of the Kolkata district and some part of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Nadia, Hooghly district and Howrah district. The industrial belt has 8,746 registered large factories (1989) besides 33,749 registered small factories (1990). Of the total 20 lakh industrial workers 12.7 lakh are engaged in transport and tertiary services, 2.4 lakh in jute industry, and 2.2 lakh in engineering and cotton textile industries. On the basis of the value of industrial output, transport and tertiary industry comes on the top (Rs. 1,327 million), followed by jute manufacturing (Rs. 1,323 million), manufacturing (Rs. 950 million), chemicals (Rs. 542 million), iron and steel (Rs. 444 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuchura Railway Station
Chunchura railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line. It is located in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is under the jurisdiction of Eastern Railway zone. Chunchura railway station is an important and busy railway stations of Howrah railway division. It serves Hooghly District headquarter Chinsurah and surrounding areas. It is 36 km. from Howrah Station. History East Indian Railway Company The East Indian Railway Company, operating as the East Indian Railway (reporting mark EIR), introduced railways to East India and North India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, South Indian Railway, Bombay, Barod ... started construction of a line out of Howrah for the proposed link with Delhi via Rajmahal and Mirzapur in 1851. The first passenger train in eastern India ran from Howrah to Hooghly on 15 August 1854. The track was extended to Raniganj by 1855. Electrification Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooghly Railway Station
Hooghly is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line. It is located in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Hugli-Chuchura and surrounding areas. History East Indian Railway Company The East Indian Railway Company, operating as the East Indian Railway (reporting mark EIR), introduced railways to East India and North India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, South Indian Railway, Bombay, Barod ... started construction of a line out of Howrah for the proposed link with Delhi via Rajmahal and Mirzapur in 1851. The first passenger train in eastern India ran from Howrah to Hooghly on 15 August 1854. The track was extended to Raniganj by 1855. Here is a short description of the first regular train in eastern India: Electrification Electrification of Howrah–Burdwan main line was completed with 25 kV AC overhead system in 1958. References External linksTrains to Howrah Railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chunchura Assembly Constituency
Chunchura Assembly constituency is an Vidhan Sabha, assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of West Bengal. Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 190 Chunchura Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality and Bandel, Debanandapur, Kodalia I and Kodalia II gram panchayats of Chinsurah Mogra Community Development Block in India, community development block and Polba, Rajhat and Sugandha gram panchayats of Polba Dadpur community development block. Chunchura Assembly constituency is part of No. 28 Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency). Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results 2021 2011 In the 2011 election, Asit Mazumdar of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Narendranath Dey of AIFB. .# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. 1977-2006 In the 2006 West Bengal state asse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooghly Lok Sabha Constituency
Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Hugli-Chuchura in West Bengal. All seven assembly segments of No. 28 Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency are in Hooghly district. Overview Hoogly constituency, shares a large industrial area on the western bank of the Hooghly river in the district with Sreerampur and has a rich agricultural hinterland. According to ''The Statesman'', "The Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency had remained a Communist bastion till the Trinamul snatched their thunder in the 2009 General Election. The constituency has the distinction of having a rich colonial history with the Portuguese settlement at Bandel, the French colony at Chandannagore, the Danish settlement at Serampore… and Chinsurah, a former Dutch colony. Despite ruling West Bengal for 35 years, the Marxist government alienated its people by such historical blunders as the forcible acquisition of fertile agricultural land in Sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siege Of Hooghly
The siege of Hooghly was a military engagement between the Mughal Army and the Portuguese garrison of Fort Hooghly, the result was the capture of the fort and expulsion of the Portuguese. Background The Portuguese founded the town of Hooghly-Chuchura in 1579, but the district has thousands of years of heritage in the form of the great Kingdom of Bhurshut. The city flourished as a trading port and some religious structures were built. One such structure is a Christian church dedicated to a statue of Mary, brought by the Portuguese. in 1628, Shah Jahan became the new emperor of the Mughal Empire, in the same time, news reached from Qasim Khan Juvayni, the Governor of Bengal that the Portuguese were committing acts of piracy, smuggling, kidnapping, and the slave trade, Shah Jahan resolved to curb the Portuguese acts. It is reported by Om Prakash that the Portuguese become brazen and confident as they though they are superior than the Mughals in open wide naval conflict like G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Chinsurah
The Battle of Chinsurah, also known as the Battle of Biderra or the Battle of Hoogly, took place on 25 November 1759 near Chinsurah during the Seven Years' War. It was fought between forces of the British East India Company (EIC) and the Dutch East India Company (VOC), the latter of whom had been invited in 1759 by the Nawab of Bengal, Mir Jafar, to help him expel the EIC and establish the VOC as the leading European power in Bengal. Despite the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic not formally being at war, the VOC's forces advanced up the Hooghly River. They met a force of Bengal Army troops under Francis Forde at Chinsurah on 25 November, fifty kilometres from Calcutta. Forde's troops defeated the Dutch, forcing them to withdraw. Several EIC ships had earlier engaged and defeated the ships the VOC used to deliver the troops in a separate naval battle on 24 November.Spectrum Modern History Of India, Rajiv Ahir, page 41. Background Following the British captur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooghly (other)
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Hooghly or Hughli can refer to: Geography *Hooghly River, distributary of the Ganges in India **Hooghly, West Bengal, colonial port town on the river now part of Hugli-Chinsura *** Hooghly district, established 1795, containing the above town *** Hooghly railway station ***Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency) Ships * ''Hooghly'' (1819 ship), a British merchant ship, launched in 1819 *Hooghly-class fuel barge, watercraft of the Indian Navy * HMIS ''Hooghly'' (K330), an Indian pilot vessel and former Canadian frigate See also * * * *Chinsurah (other) Hugli-Chuchura, also known as Hooghly-Chinsurah or Chinsurah, is a city and the district headquarter of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal. It may also refer to: Places West Bengal, India * Chinsurah subdivision * Chinsurah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
