Brit Influences Linger on in Bengali Psyche
BY RUCHIRA GHOSH Anglo-Bengali camaraderie may be traced back to 1690 when Job Charnock, a senior official of the erstwhile East India Company, shifted his operations to Sutanati, an obscure village inhabited by local merchants who had dealings with the company. Gradually he got the area merged with two other villages, Gobindopur and Kalighat, thus laying (although this is highly disputed) the foundation of the sprawling … Continue reading Brit Influences Linger on in Bengali Psyche

