#Calcutta

Rebellia

darthdevi

I know I will receive a lot of flak for this but the Calcutta Cup was crafted by Indian silversmiths for and during Britain’s long and harrowing ruling over us.

Chelsea McGill

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1 November 1858: a large crowd gathered at the Government House in #Calcutta to hear the Queen's proclamation of the beginning of direct rule by the British government. It was

Chelsea McGill

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Ok, tweeps. It's #Victorian story time. Today I want to introduce you to a man whose last name was definitely Berigny, but whose first name may have been Thiennette or

Pictures of Pakistan

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The football team from Bannu (KPK, Pakistan) got nearly killed at calcutta about 110 year ago! The team toured India in summers of 1905 played football matches against various clubs/schools.

Om Prasad

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This is a remarkable episode in the History of Science in India. It's a shame that it is rarely featured among 'achievements' in any inventory of India's past and even

Harsh Chaturvedi

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on 26th Dec 1986 ... At Rishikesh unknown decomposed body was found on street ..near garbage dump...said to be of 'beggar' who used to sit below the statue of Netaji

অবান

Aban__Ind

1) Swarajyamag credits the British imperialism for "civilizing" Bengalis Says whatever good in "Calcutta", was bcoz of British institutions& Bengal's relative economic decline post 1947 was due to "communist

Bed Tea Debi

sohinichat

#DoctorsDayIndia marks the birth + death day of Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, a fabled doctor in Calcutta, and West Bengal's second chief minister after Independence. He was in office for

Sri Thiruvadanthai

teasri

A lot of pessimism about India. I grew up in the 1970s--we used have long lines for everything. Telephone line took 10 years. My mother tells me that there was

ThoughtPower

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@sandeeproy1 As it turns out, the first B of BBD Bagh, Benoy Krishna Basu was a member of Netaji’s Bengal Volunteers, started in1928 and on display at Calcutta congress. He

Soutik Biswas

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THREAD: In 1894, Waldemar Haffkine, a Russian Jew trained in Paris, travelled to Calcutta armed with a cholera vaccine. The slums were battling an outbreak of the disease. The 33-year-old

Swati

swatiatrest

I deleted an earlier QT because it felt unnecessary. But I really wish more people would engage with non-English language scholarship before passing sweeping comments on figures like Tagore. The

Sreedi

kaladikulcha

Maharaja Ranbir Singh Bahadur greeting the then Prince of Wales in #Calcutta in 1875.This is an important meeting, for the Prince told the Maharaja, I've heard much of your state,

Anurag Shukla

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Throughout the 18th century, members of the British East India Company reported their discoveries of native scientific and technological practices to the Royal Society. Here, listing out some of those

Hari

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On 05/06/1873, 3-months after leaving Calcutta, Lalla Rookh arrived in Paramaribo, the first of many ships that transported East Indian indentured labourers to the Caribbean Basin https://immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/suriname.ht

Tathagata Roy

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Birthday of Swami Vivekananda today.The young man from an impoverished North Calcutta family who came under the spell of the seer Ramakrishna Paramahansa at Dakshineswar Temple. Charged with his divine

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