Located inside the Milk Colony in Belgachia, the magnificent Belgachia Rajbari, also known as Paikpara Rajbari is now almost in ruins. History says that, ‘Belgachia Villa’, the magnificent and one of the most famous mansions of the mid 19th century, was once belonged to Auckland, an Italian. Around 1823, Prince Dwarkanath

Rev. Alexander Duff, the first missionary to India from the Church of Scotland, founded “General Assembly's Institution” on 13 July 1830, with the support of the Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck. At the Disruption of 1843 (when 450 ministers of the Church broke away from the parent body,

Tagore or Thakur family was actually Rarhy Brahmins (Kushari) of ‘Shandilya Gotra’ from Khula, in the eastern part of Bengal, now in Bangladesh. But they were better known as “Pirali Brahmins”, as they were connected to a Brahmin family, which had converted to Islam due to some unavoidable circumstances. The

Situated at 65/2 Baghbazar Street, “Basubati”, the palatial mansion of Nandalal Basu and Pashupatinath Basu is an iconic landmark of Calcutta which still stands as the witness of its glorious past. The Basu family had huge landed property (Zamindari) in Gaya district of Bihar. Mahendra Basu, the eldest son of the

Popularly known as one of the haunted places in Calcutta, “Putul Bari” or the “House of Dolls” is situated at 22 Hara Chandra Mullick Lane, by the side of the Circular Railway track and very near to the Shobhabazar jetty. At the turn 20th century the Hooghly River was navigable

There stands on the Strand, facing the River Hooghly, an old and yellowish dilapidated building, with its imposing facade, like a replica of the Athenian Temple of Minerva. This palatial building  was once the old mint complex of Calcutta, popularly known as the Old Silver Mint. During the early days, The

Clive House, situated at 91 Rastraguru Avenue, Dum Dum, is probably one of the oldest residential buildings in Calcutta, as it was in existence even before 1756. As a dumb witness of the glorious past, a desolate plaque at the entrance of the dilapidated and distressed structure proclaims that Lord