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Kolkata, India

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"Sourav has created kolkata for its venues and franchises,He is the best Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by giving importance to association football and other sports." Besides being poorly written, where is this sourced? --NeilN ^{talk to me} 04:31, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

The lead does not necessarily need citations if the information is cited in the appropriate sections of the article. The sports scenario in the city is discussed, along with citations, in the sports section. This sentence is a summary of that section. Now, of course any improvement in the language is always welcome.--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:03, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

"Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by giving importance to association football and other sports" is not cited anywhere I can see. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 00:18, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

whicy part exactly are looking the citation for? ThatKolkata differs from other cities ? Or that kolkata gives importance to football? That High incidence of football games or clubs has been cited in the sports section. Now whether that is a peculiar characteristic of kolkata (different from most other indian cities) has not been cited. We will search for that.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:53, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

this one may suffice [ http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-06-13/news/50564484_1_arsenal-soccer-schools-football-player-football-training], I will add this one later when I edit from a computer. May be will find more--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:00, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Coordinate error

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—1.39.12.195 (talk) 06:30, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

 Not done. You haven't explained how you think the coordinates are in error, and they appear to be correct. If you still think that there is a problem with the coordinates, please post a clear explanation of the problem. Deor (talk) 10:21, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Kolkata's importance with regard to foreign offices.

As written in the "Bangalore" page, I would like to add a small list of foreign embassies and consulates which are present in Kolkata. I have seen in the aforementioned page, that some embassies were mentioned. I would like to mention some embassies in the "Kolkata" page as well. They are :- Austria:,Bangladesh,Belgium,Bhutan ,Bolivia ,Bulgaria,Canada,Czechoslovakia,Denmark,Egypt,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Indonesia,Italy ,Japan,Nepal,Netherlands,Norway,Philippines ,East Peru,Rumania ,Russia ,Singapore,Spain,Sri Lanka,South Korea,Sweden ,Switzerland,Thailand,Turkey,UK and USA <refhttp://www.kolkata.org.uk/embassies.html></ref> DebjyotiSam (talk) 10:13, 25 October 2014 (UTC)DebjyotiSam 25/10/2014

Semi-protected edit request on 14 December 2014

You may want to check the following redundancies that I found during the short period that I search the article:

Hooghly river 1 redundant

Port of Kolkata 1 redundant

Nawab of Bengal 1 red

Siraj ud-Daulah 1 red

Indian independence movement 2 red66.74.176.59 (talk) 12:48, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Done -Thanks for the improvement suggested. Anupmehra -Let's talk! 14:06, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 January 2015

There should be a panoramic view of Kolkata's skyline .

Swapnil Chatterjee (talk) 12:14, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Not done: Please make your request for a new image to be uploaded to Files For Upload. Once the file has been properly uploaded, feel free to reactivate this request to have the new image used. - Arjayay (talk) 12:29, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 March 2015

VILLAGE KOLIKATA Not too far from the capital of Bengal, there exists a village called Kolikata. Away from the bustle of the city, life goes on here at its own slow pace, reports ACHINTYARUP RAY (This was published in The Times Of India, Date: October 30, 2011)

   Around the same time that Job Charnock got off his vessel at a “low swampy village of scattered huts” to set up the Bengal headquarters of the Honourable East India Company there, 50 kilometres away, at another village, one Jagannath Roy received some land from the Maharaja of Burdwan for his household deity. The first village was on the banks of the Hooghly and the second one was by the river Damodar. And while the former grew up to become the second city of the Empire, the latter remained unknown. The world never really came to know about this small hamlet called Kolkata — or Kolikata, to be precise. 

   The village — now in Howrah district of West Bengal, India— became a subject of discussion among the pundits for the first time in 1938, when national professor Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay wrote an article in the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Patrika on the name of the city of Kolkata — or Kolikata. The professor was trying to look for the origin of the name. For that, the first thing he did was to find out if there was any other place in the (undivided) Bengal by this name. And there actually was. Not one, but two villages named Kolkata — one under the Lohajung thana of Dhaka, Bangladesh and the other under the Amta thana of Howrah of West Bengal, India. He started gathering information about the places and found one thing in common between Kolikata, the capital of Bengal, and the village by the Damodar in Howrah. In both the places once thrived the small industry of making lime (koli) by burning snail shells (kata). 

There still exist a few chunari families in village Kolikata, whose business till two decades ago was making lime. “But not any more,” said Shankar Das Chunari, a 55-year-old resident of the village. Shankar used to help his father burn snail shells when he was a teenager. “Now we do odd jobs, like pulling rickshaw vans, for a living. Some of us work as land labourers and sharecroppers,” he said, standing near the ruins of the nilkuthi (indigo factory).

   It’s indeed a strange experience to be in a village that shares its name with a megapolis. Away from the hustle and bustle of the city, life here goes on at its own slow pace — with a few small shops, a marketplace, remains of a nilkuthi, a small building of Kolikata Prathamik Vidyalay, a couple of village clubs, some old temples and of course, the river. 

   The earliest record that can be found with the name of the village as Kolikata is the sanad (deed) of Burdwan’s Maharaja Krishnaram, whereby he gave some land to Jagannath Roy for the latter’s family deity. It was dated 1091 Bangabda (1684 AD). Jagannath was the son of Ramakrishna Kavichandra, who had penned Shivayan Kavya. Two more old deeds — one dated 1169 Bangabda (1762 AD) and the other dated 1185 Bangabda (1778 AD) — could be found till a few years ago with signatures of Kshudiram Deyashi and Atmaram Banik respectively, both of whom were residents of village Kolikata. 

   The 1,500 residents of this village affectionately call it Chhoto Kolkata (little Kolkata) — in comparison to the metropolis. (Although settlement records show the name of the mouza as Kolikata. JL No. 152.) The locals also love to name different spots of the village after places of the city. So, the marketplace has been named 

Bowbazar and an open field near the Gorhdanga mound is called Gorher Math (named after Kolkata Maidan). “And see, this is Nimtala, our burning ghat,” shows villager Gobindo, not without some pride. The village already had a Dharmatala — the place near the old temple of Lord Dharma.

   The Dharma temple is quite old. It was built in 1797 (1204 Bangabda). According to the inscription above the temple gate, Gayaram Deyasi of village Kolikata built this temple and the mason 

   was Abhaycharan Mistry of village Thole. There is another ancient temple nearby, which is older than this, but nobody knows today for which deity it had been built. 

   The 95.55-hectare village is divided into four neighbourhoods — Mondal Para, Chunari Para, Purba Deyashi Para and Paschim Deyashi Para. 

   “Today, people don’t know about our village, but it was once an important centre of lime manufacture and trade,” says Tapan Mondal, who runs an NGO called Agragati. “And the boats which were used by traders of nearby Betai port were owned mostly by the Majhis of Kolkata village. Boat making was also an important industry here. People knew this place for its lime and boats,” he adds. 

   But not anymore. Today, Kolkata is just like any other village — small, nondescript and forgotten by the world outside. 

(Above) A village club, called Kolikata Netaji Sangha; (left) the remains of an old indigo factory; (bottom) river Damodar flows by the village

(Above) The 214-year-old Dharma temple at Kolkata; (right) the building of Kolikata Prathamik Vidyalay

117.249.83.79 (talk) 11:26, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 11:36, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Black Town / White Town ??

"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 centered on North Calcutta"

This is false. According to the 1901 census (the historical height of European numbers resident in Calcutta), Calcutta had a population of 949,144 of which the British portion was 11,425 - around 1% of Calcutta !!! And it was suggested at the time that even this tiny British head count (including soldiers, sailors and British people just passing through) was artificially inflated by many Anglo Indians posing as Irish. (Source HEA Cotton, Calcutta Old & New, page 199). How could the native population have been centred on the North of Calcutta??? The Europeans may have had their tight little enclave in Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square, but all other areas of Calcutta - I repeat: ALL OTHER AREAS OF CALCUTTA were a minimum of 99% Indian - east, west, north, south and central. Why has the numbers of Europeans in Calcutta been so grossly exaggerated, to suggest that the native population was centred in the north, and that the city was divided into two? I suspect that Indian nationalists like it that way. I have read a dozen books about Calcutta written during the British era - and never a mention of any "black town" ! Let's face it, the concept doesn't even make sense.

Thanks....

TIMOTHY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.131.10 (talk) 11:50, 24 April 2015 (UTC)