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Calcutta History - DUBIOUS sentence

It says: "By the 1850s, Calcutta had two areas: White Town, which was primarily British and centred on Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square; and Black Town, mainly Indian and centred on North Calcutta." This simply isn't possible, the European element of Calcutta according to the 1901 census were 11,425 British in the city, the total population being 949,144 - so the British were roughly 1% of the population. Even though the Europeans may have enjoyed more personal living space, it's abundantly clear that aside from a few streets and tiny enclaves like Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square, the metropolis was (demographically speaking) overwhelmingly Indian in virtually all geographical areas. To say that the Indians mainly centred on the north, presumably leaving the other vast areas of the vast city (East, West, South, central) dominated by or with a substantial presence of Europeans, is clearly FALSE. One source given for this statement is this tiny article: https://web.archive.org/web/20120112023055/http://www.laits.utexas.edu/solvyns-project/hardgraveportrait.html - in this short article I can find no reference to anything about any so-called "white town" nor any information about Calcutta's erstwhile racial demographics, nor anything relating to the 1850's! Instead it's about an artist that drew some nice drawings of city life between 1791-1804. The second source given was a book "Calcutta through 300 years: Changing visions, lasting images" - which I admit I haven't read, but it appears to be a coffee table picture book, with postcard and artists impressions of the city over a period of a few centuries, a glossy unofficial souvenir book published to mark the city's 300th anniversary (1990), very nice I'm sure, but not really an academic source I think. Zac 26/11/19 -

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 30 August 2021

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I want to edit some foundation related data. Their are some misconceptions about Kolkata foundation. Soumyadeep176 (talk) 10:39, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I want to update some foundation related data. Their are some misconceptions about Kolkata Soumyadeep176 (talk) 10:41, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See the panel above: "... the request must be of the form "please change X to Y"." --David Biddulph (talk) 10:48, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2021. Kolkata's gdp is more than 250 bilion us doller

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2409:4061:4E91:2A9B:A04E:92B1:6712:217A (talk) 06:39, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. melecie t 07:44, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

dear sir Kolkata's gdp ppp is more than 250 bilion us doller.

kolkata's gdp pppis more than 250 bilion us doller 2409:4061:4E91:2A9B:A04E:92B1:6712:217A (talk) 06:42, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Please revert vandalism. March 2nd's change by Rajen Gain (changing the description of a cathedral to "Hindu temple", that of the business district to "poverty" and that of a tram to "slums") is not only nonsensical but also broke the formatting. Nikolaj'u (talk) 16:25, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ITC Royal Bengal

Is that a CGI image instead of a real picture for ITC Royal Bengal? I think better images should be added. 103.161.55.94 (talk) 14:32, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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 Please revert vandalism. March 2nd's change by Rajen Gain (changing the description of a cathedral to "Hindu temple", that of the business district to "poverty" and that of a tram to "slums") is not only nonsensical but also broke the formatting. [[User:Nikolaj&#39;u|Nikolaj&#39;u]] ([[User talk:Nikolaj&#39;u|talk]]) 16:25, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
+== ITC Royal Bengal ==
+Is that a CGI image instead of a real picture for ITC Royal Bengal? I think better images should be added. [[Special:Contributions/103.161.55.94|103.161.55.94]] ([[User talk:103.161.55.94|talk]]) 14:32, 16 April 2022 (UTC)