Cossipore

Cossipore (also spelt as Cossipur, Kashipur) is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. One of the oldest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, it has a police station. Its name has been kept after Mulakchand Dewan Kashinathji, its one-time owner. He had been gifted Cossipore by Lord Clive.

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The entry is geolocated on the map in WB, across 2 mapped points.

It is catalogued under the topic Neighbourhoods in Kolkata.

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections

Contents

History
Geography
KMC ward
Police district
Transport
Bus
Private Bus
CSTC Bus
Train
Cossipore Electric Generating Station
Gallery
References
External links

==History== The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor 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, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Cossipore was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the Maratha Ditch.

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