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Who founded the east Indian city Kolkata (calcutta) and is it the oldest of all Indian cities? |
Travel Info Who founded the east Indian city Kolkata (calcutta) and is it the oldest of all Indian cities? Travel Tips The documents which the historians attached in support of their findings stated that Job Charnock landed in Sutani village on August 24, 1690, and died in 1693. BUT Job Charnock will no more be named as the founder of Kolkata as the city had neither a founder nor a foundation day. Yes, it is also the oldest city of India, (documented since 1510) followed by Hydrabad (1530) and Delhi (1580). Source: **Indian Arceological Database. Databook 2006* Ministry of Internal Affairs, New Delhi. These findings of an expert committee have been endorsed by the Division Bench of the Kolkata High Court, comprising Chief Justice Asoke Kumar Mathur and Mr Justice Jayanta Biswas. The five-member committee set up by the High Court comprised historians, as members. The Division Bench, at its historic judgment directed the state government to immediately rectify all official documents pertaining to Kolkata鈥檚 foundation day as per the expert committee鈥檚 report and correct history books and other writings where Job Charnock has been named as Kolkata鈥檚 founder. The High Court ruled that August 24, 1690, would no more be observed as Kolkata鈥檚 foundation day as Kolkata (Kalikata) existed much before the arrival of Job Charnock. The name of Kalikata was mentioned in the 鈥淢onasavijay Kabya鈥?much before Job Charnock鈥檚 arrival and the land document of 鈥淎ain-e-Akbari鈥?in 1596. The Sabarno Roy Chowdhury family got the zamindari of Sutani, Govindapur and Kalikata in 1608. Hence, Job Charnock cannot be named as Kolkata鈥檚 founder, the Bench stated, quoting the committee鈥檚 report. The High Court gave this judgment on a public interest petition filed by the Saborno Roy Chowdhury Parivar Parishad and nine other persons challenging the naming of Job Charnock as the founder of the city, and August 24, 1690, as its foundation day. The petition was filed in April last year. The court set up an expert committee to examine the matter and submit its report to the court. The report was submitted to the Chief Justice recently. Source(s): I fail to understand why some answerer's do not know the fact that "half knowledge is dangerous knowledge". Other Travel Tips Job Charnock is credited with having founded the city of Kolkata. It is definitely not the oldest of Indian Cities. Delhi, Hyderabad, Cuttack are much older than Kolkata JOB CHARNOCK is credited with having founded Calcutta, now Kolkata, in 1690. But excavations conducted recently by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at Dumdum, near the location of the Kolkata airport, indicate that an advanced urban civilisation flourished in the region long before the chief of the East India Company got there. On 16th may, 2003 the Hon鈥檅le Kolkata High Court has dismissed the name of Charnock as the city鈥檚 founder and 24Th august 1690 as its birthday. This landmark verdict came after we on behalf of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury Paribar Parishad and nine other intellectuals of the city filed a public interest litigation. The verdict was based upon the findings of an expert committee report headed by the famous historian late Sri Nemai Sadhan Basu. The city is a colonial city developed by the British East India Company and then the British Empire. The city was the capital of the British Indian empire till 1911 when the capital was relocated to Delhi. Kolkata witnessed a fast rise as the second city of the British Empire in the 1800s accompanied by the development of a culture that was a coalescence of European philosophy with Indian tradition. In spite of the High Court ruling, the growth of the present city can be dated from 1690, when Job Charnock, an agent of the English East India Company chose the place for a trade settlement. In 1698, the East India Company bought three villages (Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur) from a local landlord. The next year, the company began developing the city as a Presidency City. In 1727, as per the order of King George I, a civil court was set up in the city. The Calcutta municipal corporation (recently renamed as 'Kolkata Municipal Corporation') was formed and the city had its first mayor. YES. KOLKATA IS THE OLDEST OF ALL INDIAN CITIES. - -Excerpts from http://www.answers.com/topic/history-of-... |
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