• Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (popularly known by its abbreviation CC&FC, or CCFC) is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata,...
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    Andrew. In 1884, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club again set up a rugby section and in 1890 set up an inter club trophy, the Calcutta Rugby Union Challenge...
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    The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab...
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  • The Calcutta Football League (CFL) is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of West Bengal, organised by Indian Football Association...
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    clubs are Calcutta Football Club (founded in 1872, later merged with Calcutta Cricket Club founded in 1792 to form Calcutta Cricket and Football Club)...
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    while wearing the robes of the Star of India and holding the orb and sceptre." It arrived in Calcutta in 1902 and was unveiled on the maidan by Lord Curzon...
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    the best-preserved and most elegant houses of nineteenth-century Calcutta. The mansion is famous for its marble walls, floors, and sculptures, from which...
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    after Ramkumar's death. Photograph of Ramnath Temple from Views of Calcutta and Barrackpore, taken by Samuel Bourne. Twelve Shiva temples at the Dakshineswar...
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  • Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) was a colonial city. The British East India Company developed Calcutta as a village by establishing an artificial riverine...
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    Museum of Calcutta before independence,) is a massive museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest...
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    Kolkata Metropolitan Area (abbreviated KMA; formerly Calcutta Metropolitan Area), also known as Greater Kolkata, is the urban agglomeration of the city...
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  • clubs in the country. The club has other departments for women's football, men's and women's cricket, field hockey, athletics and eSports. East Bengal was...
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    India, noted for its Gothic architecture and dedicated to Paul the Apostle. It is the seat of the Diocese of Calcutta. The cornerstone was laid in 1839; the...
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  • University of Calcutta. The institution was elevated to university status in 2010 after functioning as a constituent college of the University of Calcutta for about...
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    unsavoury bustees. Today we shall find on the site of the old bustees the Calcutta 'Zoo.' A very large share of the credit for the establishment of this pleasant...
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    ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট অ্যান্ড ফুটবল ক্লাব (সিসিএফসি)" [Maidan & Club: Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CCFC)]. archives.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Kolkata:...
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  • of Bengal and his French allies, thereby securing India for Britain in the long run. Adwaita was transferred to the Alipore Zoo in Calcutta in 1875 or...
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    Kolkata (Calcutta). The Sheriff has an office and staff in Calcutta High Court but does not have executive powers. Mumbai (Bombay) and Kolkata (Calcutta) are...
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    and is known as the Raj Bhavan, a name it shares with the official residences of other states' governors. In the early nineteenth century, Calcutta was...
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    The 42 (Kolkata) (category Buildings and structures in Kolkata)
    (Calcutta High Court, GA Case No 2698 / 2013) The matter is pending before the Calcutta High Court. The 42, is coming up in between Jeevan Sudha and Tata...
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    Fort William is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta (Kolkata). It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal. It sits on the eastern...
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    books and records, it is the largest in the country. The Imperial Library was formed in 1891 by combining a number of Secretariat libraries in Calcutta. Of...
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  • Calcutta Customs Club is an Indian institutional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is best known for its football section, which competes...
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  • Prostitution in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is present in different forms and Kolkata's sex industry is one of the largest in Asia. Prostitution may be...
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    The Calcutta flag was one of the first unofficial flags of India. It was designed by Sachindra Prasad Bose and Hemchandra Kanungo and unfurled on 7 August...
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    Arun Lal (category Indian cricket commentators)
    award by the Cricket Association of Bengal's (CAB's) on 3 August 2019. He was served as president of the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club. Arun Lal got...
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  • Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first...
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    19 May 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2006. "PIA01844: space radar image of Calcutta, West Bengal, India". NASA. 15 April 1999. Retrieved 15 January 2012. Murray...
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    building the depot and the construction for its boundary wall and land development started in February 2019. Tenders for its construction and plant & machinery...
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  • Company tried to befriend them and, among other things, introduced them to cricket. The Calcutta Cricket and Football Club was known to be in existence...
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