Tangra, Kolkata

Tangra
Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Gobinda Chandra Khatik Road, Tangra
Tangra Location in Kolkata
Coordinates: 22°33′45″N88°23′11″E / 22.562434°N 88.386435°E / 22.562434; 88.386435
Country	India
State	West Bengal
City	Kolkata
District	Kolkata [1] [2] [3]
Metro Station	Sealdah, Beleghata(under construction) and Barun Sengupta(under construction)
Municipal Corporation	Kolkata Municipal Corporation
KMC wards	56, 57, 58, 59, 66
Elevation	36 ft (11 m)
Population
• Total	For population see linked KMC ward pages
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	700015, 700046, 700105
Area code	+91 33
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolkata Uttar and Kolkata Dakshin
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Beleghata, Entally and Kasba

Tangra is a region in East Kolkata that traditionally housed many tanneries owned by people of Hakka Chinese origin.

History

The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Tangra was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the Maratha Ditch. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

In the eastern fringes of Kolkata, the neighbourhoods such as Tangra, Tiljala, Topsia and Dhapa, were populated largely with people who migrated from poverty-ridden and caste-ridden villages, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. They came with dreams of a better life but landed in the slums with open drains, pigsties, factory chimneys and pungent chemicals. They found work in the tanneries and factories, and also engaged in menial work. A big proportion of them were Chamars, but there also were Doms, Dosads, Mehtars and Kahars. They were all Harijans and they formed a majority. They escaped from persecution they faced in their villages but were far removed from the mainstream of urban life and culture. ^[7] The Cha Project is designed to preserve Tiretta Bazaar and develop Tangra. ^[8]

Geography

750m
780yds

Tangra

  

Police district

Tangra police station is in the Eastern Suburban division of Kolkata Police. It is located at 15, Gobinda Chandra Khatik Road, Kolkata-700015. ^[9]

Ultadanga Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Suburban division i.e. Beliaghata, Entally, Manicktolla, Narkeldanga, Ultadanga, Tangra and Phoolbagan. ^[9]

Transport

Bus

Private Bus

• 24 Topsia - Bandhaghat
• 24A Topsia - Bandhaghat
• 213 Ghatakpukur - Babughat
• SD24 Sonakhali, Basanti - Alipore Zoo

Mini Bus

• S166 Tangra - Howrah Station

Train

Park Circus railway station on Sealdah South lines is the nearest railway station.

Education

• D.N. De Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital

Metro Rail

Barun Sengupta metro station (also known as Science City), is an under construction station of the Kolkata Metro Orange Line located at Parama Island on the EM Bypass is the nearest metro station.

See also

• Chinese influences on Bengali cuisine
• Hakka Chinese
• Hakka cuisine
• Hakka people
• Indian Chinese cuisine
• Tiretta Bazaar

References

1. "Kolkata South district".
2. "South 24 Parganas district".
3. "Electors Details As On 30-10-2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2013.
4. "District Census Handbook Kolkata, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A" (PDF). Pages 6-10: The History. Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
5. Cotton, H.E.A., Calcutta Old and New, first published 1909/reprint 1980, pages 103-4 and 221, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
6. Nair, P.Thankappan, The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, pp. 14-15, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.
7. Bandyopadhyay, Raghab, "The Inheritors: Slum and Pavement Life in Calcutta", in Calcutta, The Living City Vol II, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Pages 78-82, First published 1990, 2005 edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN   0-19-563697-X
8. "The Cha Project will preserve Kolkata's rich history, not glassed up in a museum but as a tangible, living heritage". The Cha Project. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
9. "Kolkata Police". Eastern Suburban Division. KP. Retrieved 5 March 2018.

External links

• Kolkata/East travel guide from Wikivoyage