Calcutta, Suburbs

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Calcutta, Suburbs of

A name given to the three suburban municipalities of Cossipore-Chitpur (population, 40,750), Maniktala (32,387), and Garden Reach (28,211), which are thus grouped as a subdivision of the District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal. The area of the subdivision is 10 square miles, and the population in 1901 was 101,348, as compared with 87,508 in 1891, the density being 10,135 persons per square mile. Cossipore-Chitpur is north and Maniktala north-east of Calcutta, while Garden Reach bounds the city on the south-west