History of Calcutta
Although the name Kalikata had been mentioned in the rent-roll of the Great
Mughal emperor Akbar and also in Manasa-Mangal, to explore the history of Calcutta,
we have to go back to the 17 th. century. It was in 1690....Job Charnock came
to the bank of the river Hooghly (it's the part of the Ganges) and took the
lease of the three villages- Sutanuti, Govindapur and Kolikata(Calcutta) as
a trading post of British East India Company.
The city became famous in 1756, when Siraj-Ud-Dawlah, the last independent nawab
of Bengal, captured the city . But the British regained their power in 1757
and the city was recaptured under Robert Clive. Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General
of India, made it the seat of the supreme courts of justice and the supreme
revenue administration, and Calcutta became the capital of British India in
1772. By 1800 Calcutta had become a busy and flourishing town, the center of
the cultural as well as the political and economic life of Bengal.
