1868 Large Engraving - Calcutta, India - Washing Horses in the Hooghly River

Description

A full-page engraving, published in Harper's Weekly dated November 7, 1868 entitled as follows:
"The Horses' Morning Bath at Calcutta". The associated text which is included suggests the horses are rented out for touring the City - see scan
Good condition - soft vertical fold and small paper loss to top border not affecting the image - see scan. Unrelated text to the reverse. Page size 16 x 11 inches
This is an original antique print and not a reproduction . Great collectors item for the historian - see more of these in Seller's Other Items
which can be combined for mailing.
Note: International Mailing in a tube is expensive - the quoted rate assumes the pages are lightly folded and mailed in a reinforced envelope
Kolkata
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"Calcutta" redirects here. For other uses, see
Calcutta (disambiguation)
and
Kolkata (disambiguation)
.
Kolkata
Calcutta
Megacity
Clockwise from top:
Victoria Memorial
,
St. Paul's Cathedral
, Central Business District,
Rabindra Setu
,
City Tram Line
,
Vidyasagar Setu
Nickname(s):
Cultural Capital of India
[1]
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Coordinates:
22.5726723°N 88.3638815°E
Coordinates
:
22.5726723°N 88.3638815°E
Country
India
State
West Bengal
Division
Presidency
District
Kolkata
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[A]
Government
• Type
Municipal Corporation
• Body
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
•
Mayor
Firhad Hakim
(
AITC
)
•
Sheriff
Mani Shankar Mukherjee
•
Police commissioner
Soumen Mitra, IPS
Area
[7]
[8]
•
Megacity
206.08 km
2
(79.151 sq mi)
• Metro
1,886.67 km
2
(728.45 sq mi)
Elevation
9 m (30 ft)
Population
(2011)
[7]
[9]
•
Megacity
4,496,694
• Rank
7th
• Density
22,000/km
2
(57,000/sq mi)
•
Metro
[10]
[11]
14,112,536
14,617,882 (Extended UA)
• Metro rank
3rd
Demonyms
Kolkatan
Calcuttan
Languages
• Official
Bengali
•
English
[12]
• Additional official
Hindi
•
Urdu
•
Nepali
•
Odia
•
Santali
•
Punjabi
•
Kamtapuri
•
Rajbanshi
•
Kurmali
[12]
Time zone
UTC+05:30
(
IST
)
PIN
700 xxx
Telephone code
+91 33
Vehicle registration
WB-01
to
WB-10
UN/LOCODE
IN CCU
Metro GDP
/
PPP
–0 billion
[13]
HDI
(2004)
0.78
[14]
(
High
)
Website
kmcgov.in
^
The Kolkata metropolitan area also includes portions of
North 24 Parganas
,
South 24 Parganas
,
Howrah
,
Nadia
and
Hooghly
districts. See:
Urban structure
.
This article contains
Bengali text
.
Without proper
rendering support
, you may see
question marks, boxes, or other symbols
.
Kolkata
(
/
k
ɒ
l
ˈ
k
ɑː
t
ə
/
[15]
or
/
k
ɒ
l
ˈ
k
ʌ
t
ə
/
,
[16]
Bengali:
[ˈkolˌkata]
(
listen
)
, also rendered
Calcutta
/
k
æ
l
ˈ
k
ʌ
t
ə
/
,
[16]
the official name until 2001
) is the
capital
of the
Indian
state
of
West Bengal
. Located on the eastern bank of the
Hooghly River
, the city is approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of the border with
Bangladesh
. It is the primary business, commercial, and financial hub of
Eastern India
and the main port of communication for
North-East India
,
[17]
as well as having the
third-largest urban economy
of India.
[13]
Kolkata is home to 9,600
millionaires
and 4
billionaires
with a total wealth of 0 billion.
[18]
[19]
According to the 2011 Indian census, Kolkata is the
seventh-most populous
city in India, with a population of 4.5 million residents within the city limits, and a population of over 14.1 million residents in the
Kolkata Metropolitan Area
, making it the
third-most populous metropolitan area
in India. The
Port of Kolkata
is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. Kolkata is known as the "cultural capital of India" for the city's historical and architectural significance.
[1]
In the late 17th century, the three villages that predated Calcutta were ruled by the
Nawab of Bengal
under
Mughal
suzerainty
. After the Nawab granted the
East India Company
a trading
licence
in 1690,
[20]
the area was developed by the Company into
an increasingly fortified trading post
. Nawab
Siraj ud-Daulah
occupied Calcutta in 1756, and the East India Company retook it the following year. In 1793 the East India company was strong enough to abolish rule, and
assumed full sovereignty
of the region. Under the company rule and later under the
British Raj
, Calcutta served as the capital of British-held territories in India until 1911, when its perceived geographical disadvantages, combined with growing nationalism in
Bengal
, led to a shift of the capital to
New Delhi
. Calcutta was the centre for the
Indian independence movement
. Following independence in 1947, Kolkata, which was once the centre of Indian commerce, culture, and politics, suffered many decades of
political violence
and
economic stagnation
.
[21]
A demographically diverse city, the
culture of Kolkata
features idiosyncrasies that include distinctively
close-knit neighbourhoods
(
paras
) and
freestyle conversations
(
adda
). Kolkata is home to West Bengal's film industry
Tollywood
, and cultural institutions, such as the
Academy of Fine Arts
, the
Victoria Memorial
, the
Asiatic Society
, the
Indian Museum
and the
National Library of India
. Among scientific institutions, Kolkata hosts the
Agri Horticultural Society of India
, the
Geological Survey of India
, the
Botanical Survey of India
, the
Calcutta Mathematical Society
, the
Indian Science Congress Association
, the
Zoological Survey of India
, the
Institution of Engineers
, the
Anthropological Survey of India
and the
Indian Public Health Association
. Four
Nobel laureates
and two Nobel Memorial Prize winners are associated with the city.
[22]
Though home to major cricketing venues and franchises, Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by
focusing
on
association football
and other sports.