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Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) was a colonial city. The British East India Company developed Calcutta as a village by establishing an artificial riverine port in the 18th century CE. Kolkata was the capital of the British India until 1911, when the capital was relocated to Delhi.
The most popular and likely one is that the city got its name from its connection to the Hindu goddess Adyashakti paramba Kali with the original name's being either Kalikshetra (in Sanskrit), meaning the place of Adyashakti Kāli, or Kalikkhetrô (the Bengali pronunciation of Kalikshetra), meaning "area of Goddess Kali", with Kolikata being ...
Sep 2, 2016 · Kolkata was always called Kolkata in Bengali — derived from the name of one of the three villages said to have become the modern city of Kolkata. But the British called it Calcutta.
Although the city's name has always been pronounced Kolkata or Kôlikata in Bengali, the anglicised form Calcutta was the official name until 2001, when it was changed to Kolkata in order to match Bengali pronunciation.
One theory mentions the name was derived from Hindu goddess Kali. According to this theory, the original name of the place was ‘Kalikshetra’ or the land of Kali. However, many people disagree to this theory. Another theory states that the name Kalikata was a combination of two words Kali and kata.
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The birth of a name. In 2003, the Calcutta high court ruled that Job Charnock, an officer of the East India Company was not the founder of West Bengal’s capital and that August 24, 1690 (the ...
Feb 2, 2017 · Before 2001, the city was officially called Calcutta – the anglicised version of its name. Here we look at the political and cultural context surrounding the renaming of one of India’s largest cities.
