A trip for a French Kiss: Chandannagar, West Bengal
Chandannagar Strand In a pleasant morning of February 2017, me and my friend Prof.Suman Bhattachary have started for Chandannagar, the last French colony in Hoogly district of West Bengal. Chandannagar was established as a French colony in 1673, when the French obtained permission from Ibrahim Khan, the Nawab of Bengal, to establish a trading post on the right bank of the Hooghli River. Bengal was then a province of the Mughal Empire. It became a permanent French settlement in 1688, and in 1730 Joseph François Dupleix was appointed governor of the city, during whose administration more than two thousand brick houses were erected in the town and a considerable maritime trade was carried on. For a time, Chandannagar was the main center for European commerce in Bengal. (From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandannagar) India became independent from Britain in 1947. In June 1948 the French Government held a plebiscite which found that 97% of Chandannagar's residents wis
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