Jorabagan is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in

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, in the

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. As a neighbourhood, it covers a small area but its importance is primarily because of the police station.

Etymology

Jorabagan, meaning ‘a pair of gardens’ in Bengali, was so named because the road through it led to the garden houses of Gobindram Mitter and Umichand.

History

Jorabagan is part of old Sutanuti. It is in this neighbourhood that Job Charnock made his famous landing at Sutanuti ghat in 1690. Mohunton's ghat between Beniatola and Shobhabazar ghats lurks the forgotten traditional landing place. There was a large tree under which Job Charnock is believed to have rested.Cotton, H.E.A., p. 282 The Sabarna Roy Choudhury Paribar Parishad, and nine other intellectuals of the city filed a public interest litigation before the Kolkata High Court in 2001 demanding a probe into the matter whether Job Charnock can be regarded as the founder of Kolkata. The Court, upon an Expert Committee finding, declared that Job Charnock cannot be regarded as the founder of the city.Sabarna Prithivi - website of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family
/ref> In 1888, one of the 25 newly organized police section houses was located in Jorabagan.

Geography

Nimtala ghat in the neighbourhood is the burning ghat where Hindus cremate their dead. Amongst the more renowned people cremated there was

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and the place is marked with a memorial structure. Nimtala ghat now has an electric crematorium.

Police district

Jorabagan police station is part of the North and North Suburban division of

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. It is located at 78, Nimtala Ghat Street, Kolkata-700006. Amherst Street Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and the North Suburban division i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala.

Transport

Road

Jorabagan is surrounded by Strand Road on the west, Kali Krishna Tagore Street on the south, Rabindra Sarani on the east and Nimtala Ghat Street on the north. Baishab Seth Street-PK Tagore Street-Jadulal Mullick Road passes through the middle of the locality from north to south. Many buses and auto-rickshaws ply along these roads.Google map

Train

Burra Bazar railway station on

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line is the nearest railway station.

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References

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