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From
the time the East India Company established their first settlement in 1690,
Calcutta has always been an important international trading center and port.
Today teeming, bustling Calcutta is a veritable microcosm of India, in an
intensely concentrated form. Some of the grandest monuments of the British Raj
are to be found here, most notably the majestic Victoria Memorial. Fascinating,
Bewitching, Bewildering. That's Calcutta / Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal.
it's largely a British creation & was capital of British India.
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