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{{Short description|City and municipality in West Bengal, India}}
{{About|the municipality in West Bengal, India|its namesake district|Hooghly district}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}

{{Infobox settlement
| name = Hugli-Chuchura
| other_name = (Hooghly-Chinsurah)
| settlement_type = City
| image_skyline = Ghorir More (Edwardian clock tower).jpg
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Ghorir More (Edwardian clock tower)
| nickname = Chuchura
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| coordinates = {{coord|22.90|N|88.39|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]]
| subdivision_type3 = Region
| subdivision_name3 = [[Kolkata metropolitan area|Greater Kolkata]]
| established_title3 = Establishment of Hooghly-Chinsurah Municipality
| established_date3 = 1865
| established_title1 = Establishment of Hooghly by Portuguese
| established_date1 = 1537
| established_title2 = Establishment of Chinsurah by Dutch
| established_date2 = 1635
| founder = Dutch
| named_for =
| government_type = [[Municipal Corporations in India|Municipality]]
| governing_body = [[Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality]]
| leader_title = Chairman
•Vice Chairman
| leader_name = Amit Roy
•Partha Saha
| unit_pref = Metric
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| population_total = 288506
| population_as_of = 2015
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]], English
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 712101, 712102, 712103, 712104, 712105, 712106
| area_code_type = Telephone code
| area_code = +91 33
| registration_plate = WB
| blank1_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| blank1_info_sec1 = [[Hooghly (Lok Sabha constituency)|Hooghly]]
| blank2_name_sec1 = Member of Parliament
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Locket Chatterjee|Smt.Locket Chatterjee]] ([[BJP]])
| blank3_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] constituency
| blank3_info_sec1 = [[Chunchura (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chunchura]]
| blank4_name_sec1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly]]
| blank4_info_sec1 = Asit Mazumder ([[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]])
| website = {{URL|hooghly.nic.in}}
<br/>{{URL|hcm.net.in}}
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'''Hugli-Chuchura''' or '''Hooghly-Chinsurah''' is a city and a municipality of [[Hooghly district]] in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]]. It lies on the bank of Hooghly River, 35 km north of [[Kolkata]].<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Chinsura |volume=6 |page=235}}</ref> It is located in the district of Hooghly and is home to the district headquarters. Chuchura houses the Commissioner of the Burdwan Range. It is a part of the area covered by [[Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority]] (KMDA).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmdaonline.com/kma.html|title=Base Map of Kolkata Metropolitan area|access-date=3 September 2007|publisher=Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307095440/http://www.cmdaonline.com/kma.html|archive-date=7 March 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The District Court building of Chinsurah is the longest building in West Bengal.

Chinsurah is the home to the new state-of-the-art 1000 KW [[Digital Radio Mondiale|DRM]] [[transmitter]] of [[Prasar Bharati|Prasar Bharti]] which enables 'Akashvaani Maitree' to be broadcast across [[Bangladesh]]. This special Bangla service of [[All India Radio]] was launched in the wake of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh Liberation Movement]] and played a key role during the war, broadcasting Indian news bulletins in Bangladesh. It continued till April 2010 but was discontinued thereafter due to decommissioning of the Super Power [[Transmitter]] at Chinsurah.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/air-to-re-launch-radio-channel-akashvani-maitree-for-bangladesh-plans-joint-content-2867857/ | title = AIR to re-launch radio channel for Bangladesh, plans joint content | date = 22 June 2016 | access-date = 7 July 2016 | publisher = Indian Express }}</ref> The headquarters of the Hooghly District Sports Association (HDSA) and the famous district Sadar hospital Imambara Sadar Hospital is situated here. Chinsurah is also the home of the oldest [[Armenian Church of St. John the Baptist|Armenian church]] in India and old [[Hindu temple|Hindu Temples]].

==Etymology==
[[File:Dom Luís de Ataïde (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Hugli-Chuchura was founded as ''Ugulim'' in 1579 by order of [[:pt:Luís de Ataíde|Luís de Ataíde, 1st Marquis of Santarém]], Viceroy of [[Portuguese India]].]]
Hooghly-Chuchura was a municipality formed by the merging of two towns, Hugli and Chinsura, in 1865. The names are spelled in other ways including ''Hooghly'', ''Hugli'', ''Hughli'', ''Ugulim'' (in Portuguese), ''Chinsura'', ''Chunchura'', ''Chuchro'' and ''Chinsurah''.

[[State Highway 6 (West Bengal)|State Highway 6]]/ [[Grand Trunk Road]] (G.T. Road) passes through the town. Chuchura and Hooghly are historic stations on the [[Howrah-Bardhaman main line]] of the [[Eastern Railway (India)|Eastern Railway]]. Ferry services across the [[Hooghly River]] serves as a link with the district of [[North 24 Parganas]].

==History==
[[File:A View of Chinsura the Dutch settlement in Bengal.jpg|thumb|left|A View of Chinsura the Dutch settlement in Bengal]]
The [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] founded the town of Hooghly-Chuchura in 1579, but the district has thousands of years of heritage in the form of the great kingdom of [[Bhurshut]]. The city flourished as a trading port and some religious structures were built. One such structure is a Christian church dedicated to a statue of Mary, brought by the Portuguese.

In 1629, political disorder struck the city and the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] governor of [[Bengal]] expelled the Portuguese. The fleeing Portuguese lost the statue in the river, but local people later found it on the river bank. The arrested Portuguese were taken to Delhi, where a death sentence of trampling by elephants was decreed. When the emperor Shah Jahan heard this he ordered the priests released and granted a piece of land on the bank of the river Hooghly, where the statue of Mary was reestablished. There the Portuguese constructed a church to house the statue, which still receives pilgrims today. The church was renovated in the 1980s and has been declared as a basilica by the authority of Rome.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

After the Portuguese expulsion, the town was made the royal port of Bengal, and all the public offices and records were established there. In 1640 the [[East India Company]] established a factory at Hugli, their first settlement in Lower Bengal.<ref name="EB1911-town">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Hugli (town)|display=Hugli|volume=13|page=862}}</ref>

In 1656 the Dutch also erected a factory on the site of the town.<ref name=EB1911/> At that time [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] was the principal settlement in [[Dutch Bengal]], who used it as a base for Dutch intra-Asian trade in opium, saltpetre, spices, cotton and indigo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dutchinchinsurah.com/|title=The Dutch in Chinsurah|website=www.dutchinchinsurah.com|language=en|access-date=2017-04-21|archive-date=22 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422132654/http://www.dutchinchinsurah.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, in 1685, a dispute having taken place between the English factors and the [[nawab]], the town was bombarded and burned to the ground.<ref name="EB1911-town"/>

In 1759 the Dutch garrison of Chinsura, on its march to [[Chandernagore]], attacked a British force under Colonel Forde. The [[Battle of Chinsurah]] lasted less than half an hour and ended with the rout of the Dutch attackers. In 1795, during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], a British garrison occupied the settlement. The peace of 1814 restored Hughli to the Dutch. However, in 1825, the Dutch ceded many of their possessions in India to the British, in exchange for the British-occupied possessions in [[Sumatra]].<ref name=EB1911/>

Both Chinsurah and Hooghly played a role in the [[Bengal renaissance]] and the [[Indian independence movement]]. "[[Vande Mataram]]", India's national song, was composed by [[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]] at Joraghat in Chinsurah, who had been an alumnus of the Hooghly Collegiate School. [[Kazi Nazrul Islam|Nazrul Islam]]'s revolutionary songs were penned while he was imprisoned by the colonial government in [[Hooghly Jail]] (Hooghly District Correctional Home).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heritage Commission, West Bengal|url=https://wbhc.in/home/place_list/NWU0MjQ3Yjc0OWEzYmI2NGVkZmZjMzZlZGIwZjc5YjEwYzdlN2ZkMDc0NmQ3YTE4ZGI4YzQwNjU5NmI3M2IxMjhiY2JiNGUzYzRlY2FjNzg1ZjBhYzg3MDZhNzMyZWVkZjdlNmEwYjYxZDViYWFhZjBlOWVjZTdmZDFlNGUyZmRJMmNnNG1IQm1reFl5S3hmNktFbTl4dXBKWjBNT055Q2oxb3Z5WG5FVDA4PQ==|access-date=2022-02-13|website=wbhc.in}}</ref>

==Geography==
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[[File:Map of hooghly chinsurah municipality.jpg|thumb|right|Map of hooghly chinsurah municipality]]

===Location===
Hugli-Chuchura is located at {{Coord|22.90|N|88.39|E|}}.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=22.898291&lon=88.39373&zoom=14&q1=Hugli-Chuchura |title = Yahoo maps location of Hugli-Chuchura |publisher = Yahoo maps |access-date = 28 December 2008}}</ref><ref name=censushandbook>{{cite web | url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/DCHB/DCHB_A/19/1912_PART_A_DCHB_HUGLI.pdf | title= Census of India 2011, West Bengal: District Census Handbook, Hooghly |work = Map of Chinsurah-Magra CD Block, page 469| publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal |access-date = 26 September 2018}}</ref>

This city is on the flood plain on the right bank of river Bhagirathi-Hooghly.
The area is composed of flat [[alluvium|alluvial]] plains that forms part of the [[Ganges Delta|Gangetic Delta]]. The high west bank of the tidal [[Hooghly River]] is highly industrialised.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/DCHB/DCHB_A/19/1912_PART_A_DCHB_HUGLI.pdf |title = District Census Handbook: Hugli, Series-20, Part XIIA | work= Physiography, Page 17-24|publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal, 2011 | access-date = 28 September 2018 }}</ref>

[[Keota, Hooghly|Keota]], [[Manushpur]], [[Naldanga, Hooghly|Naldanga]], [[Kodalia]], [[Kulihanda]], [[Dharmapur, West Bengal|Dharampur]] and [[Simla, West Bengal|Simla]] form a cluster of census towns on the eastern side of Hugli-Chuchura.<ref name=censushandbook/>

===Urbanisation===
There are 13 statutory towns and 64 census towns in Hooghly district. The right bank of the [[Hooghly River]] has been industrialised over a long period. With foreigners dominating the area's industry, trade and commerce for over two centuries, it is amongst the leading industrialised districts in the state. At the same time the land is fertile and agricultural production is significant.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/DCHB/DCHB_A/19/1912_PART_A_DCHB_HUGLI.pdf |title = District Census Handbook: Hugli, Series-20, Part XIIA | work= Physical features: pages 20, 24 |publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal, 2011 | access-date = 27 September 2018 }}</ref>

In Chinsurah subdivision 68.63% of the population is rural and the urban population is 31.37%. It has 2 statutory and 23 census towns.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://wbpspm.gov.in/publications/District%20Statistical%20Handbook |title = District Statistical Handbook 2014 Hooghly |work = Table 2.1, 2.2, 2.4(a) | publisher= Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal | access-date = 27 September 2018}}</ref> In Chinsurah Mogra CD Block 64.87% of the population is urban and 35.13% is rural. Amongst the four remaining CD Blocks in the subdivision two were overwhelmingly rural and two were wholly rural.<ref name=census2011>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/cdb_pca_census/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA) | work= 2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks|publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 27 September 2018}}</ref>

The map alongside shows a portion of Chinsurah subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

==Transportation==
[[File:Chinsurah N.S Road.jpg|thumb|left|Chinsurah N.S. Road]]
Hooghly-Chinsurah has three railway stations: [[Chinsurah railway station]] (CNS), [[Hooghly railway station]] (HGY) and [[Bandel Junction railway station]] (BDC) on the Howrah line and [[Hooghly Ghat railway station]] (HYG) on the Sealdah line. Thus Chinsurah is well connected to [[Howrah]], [[Burdwan]], [[Katwa]], [[Naihati]] and other cities. A few passenger and express trains stop at the Chuchura station. The Hooghly Ghat station is beside the [[Sampreeti Bridge]] which is a connector between the eastern and the western side of the Ganges.

Transportation in Chinsurah is mainly covered by bus, auto, rickshaw and toto. Private Buses from Chinsurah Court stand<ref>{{cite news |title=Hooghly Buses|url=http://www.kolkatabusopedia.com/hoogly-private-buses-general/}}</ref> go to [[Chinsurah railway station]] (Bus no. '''1''') and other towns such as [[Dakshineswar]] (Bus no. '''2'''), [[Memari]] (Bus no. '''4'''), [[Jirat]] (Bus no. '''8'''), [[Tarakeswar]] (Bus no. '''17''' and '''23'''), [[Haripal]] (Bus no. '''18''') and [[Pandua, Hooghly|Pandua]] (Bus no. '''39'''). Besides Express Buses up to [[Bankura]], [[Jangipara]] etc. are also available. Formerly bus to Arambagh, Bandar, Bardhaman, Barakar, Digha, Laugram, Kumarganj was available but due to insufficient passengers many of them are completely closed while some are short terminated and originated at [[Tarakeswar]]. According to many passengers because of so many illegal auto and toto routes, bus routes are closing. Auto service is provided to nearby towns and villages. Chinsurah Court-Chinsurah Railway Station, Chinsurah Court-[[Tribeni, Hooghly|Tribeni]], Chinsurah Court-[[Bandel]] Junction Railway Station, Chinsurah Court-[[Hooghly railway station]] are the major auto routes in Hooghly-Chinsurah. Additionally, Chinsurah is well-connected to [[Naihati]] by ferry services.

==Demographics==
As per [[2011 Census of India]] Hugli-Chinsurah had a total population of 179,931 of which 90,217 (50%) were males and 89,714 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 12,604. The total number of literates in Hugli-Chinsurah was 152,333 (91.04% of the population over 6 years).<ref name=census3-2011>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/pcadata/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = 2011 Census – Primary Census Abstract Data Tables | work= West Bengal – District-wise |publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 15 June 2016 }}</ref>

The following Municipalities and Census Towns in Hooghly district were part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in 2011 census: [[Bansberia]] (M), Hugli-Chinsurah (M), Bara Khejuria ([[Out Growth]]), [[Shankhanagar]] (CT), [[Amodghata]] (CT), [[Chak Bansberia]] (CT), [[Naldanga, Hooghly|Naldanga]] (CT), [[Kodalia]] (CT), [[Kulihanda]] (CT), [[Simla, West Bengal|Simla]] (CT), [[Dharmapur, West Bengal|Dharmapur]] (CT), [[Bhadreswar, Hooghly|Bhadreswar]] (M), [[Champdani]] (M), [[Chandannagar]] (M Corp.), [[Baidyabati]] (M), [[Serampore]] (M), [[Rishra]] (M), [[Rishra, Sreerampur Uttarpara|Rishra]] (CT), [[Bamunari]] (CT), [[Dakshin Rajyadharpur]] (CT), [[Nabagram Colony]] (CT), [[Konnagar]] (M), [[Uttarpara Kotrung]] (M), [[Raghunathpur (PS-Dankuni)]] (CT), [[Kanaipur]] (CT) and [[Keota, Hooghly|Keota]] (CT).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/2011-prov-results/paper2/data_files/India2/Table_4_PR_UAs_1Lakh_and_Above_Appendix.pdf | title= Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011 | work= Constituents of Urban Agglomeration Having Population Above 1 Lakh |publisher= Census of India 2011 | access-date = 16 June 2016}}</ref>

{{As of|2001}} India census, Hugli-Chinsurah had a population of 170,201. Males constitute 51.06% of the population and females 48.94%. Hugli-Chinsurah has an average literacy rate of 82.55%, higher than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 87.93% and female literacy is 76.95%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=16 June 2004|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=1 November 2008|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref>

==Police stations==
Chinsurah police station has jurisdiction over Hugli-Chuchura and [[Bansberia]] Municipal areas and a part of [[Chinsurah Mogra]] CD Block. Chinsurah police station has jurisdiction by [[Chandannagar Police Commissionerate]]. Chinsurah has a woman police station.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://wbpspm.gov.in/publications/District%20Statistical%20Handbook |title = District Statistical Handbook 2014 Hooghly |work = Tables 2.1, 2.2 |publisher = Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal |access-date = 3 October 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.policewb.gov.in/wbp/district/Hooghly/hglyphone.php | title = Hooghly District Police | publisher = West Bengal Police | access-date = 20 June 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170705234600/http://policewb.gov.in/wbp/district/Hooghly/hglyphone.php | archive-date = 5 July 2017 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

[[File:Baba Tarakeshwar Original.jpg|thumb|Lord Taraknath, [[Bandel|Tarakeswar]]]]
[[File:Babataraknathtemple.jpg|thumb|[[Dutch Cemetery, Chinsurah|Taraknath Temple, Tarakeswar]]]]
[[File:Kamarpukur Ramakrishna Hut.jpg|thumb|[[Bandel Church|Kamarpukur Ramakrishna Hut, Kamapukur]]]]
[[File:Hangseswari Temple,Front View.jpg|thumb|Hangseswari Temple, Bansberia, Hooghly]]

==Education==
===Primary and secondary education<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dbbandel.org/|title=Don Bosco School Bandel}}</ref><ref name="hcm.net.in">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hcm.net.in/Default.aspx?PageId=83|title = Welcome to Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality}}</ref>===

*[[Hooghly Collegiate School]] (established 1812), boys, [[Bengali language]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.facebook.com/HooghlyCollegiateSchoolChinsurah/| title=Official facebook page of Hooghly Collegiate School| publisher=Hooghly Collegiate School}}</ref>
*[[Hooghly Branch Government School]] (established in 1834)
* [[Techno India Group Public School]], Hooghly (established 2005), co-ed, English Medium School
* [[Don Bosco School, Bandel]] (established 1978), boys, English Medium School
* [[Chinsurah Deshbandhu Memorial High School]], boys, Bengali Medium School
* Auxilium Convent School, Bandel, girls, English Medium School
* Chinsurah Duff High School (established 1849)
* [[Binodini Girls High School]]
* S.C. Shome Training Academy
* Chinsurah Balika Sikha Mandir
* Chinsurah Deshbandhu Memorial High School (Boys)
* Chinsurah Deshbandhu Memorial High School (Girls)
* Chinsurah Bharati Bidya Bhavan Girls High School
* Garbati High School
* Hooghly Girls High School
* Hooghly Balika Banga Vidyalaya
* Ghutia Bazar Mattickbati Pathsala
* Sahaganj Shayaprosad Jatiya Vidyalaya
* Hooghly Jyotish Chandra Vidyapith (Boys)
* Chinsurah Balika Banimandir
* Bandel St.John’s High School
* Gourhari Harijan Vidyalaya
* Haronath Niroda Sundari Ghosh Vidyalaya
* Mearberh Ramkrishna Sikha Niketa
* Hooghly Jyotish Chandra Ghosh Balika Vidyalaya
* Elite Co-Ed
* Hooghly Deaf & Dumb School
* Abbot Sishu Hall
* Chinsurah English School<ref name="hcm.net.in"/>

===Higher-education<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hcm.net.in/Default.aspx?PageId=84|title = Welcome to Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality}}</ref>===
* [[Hooghly Engineering and Technology College]]
* [[Hooghly Institute of Technology]]
* [[West Bengal Survey Institute]]
* [[Hooghly Mohsin College]]
* [[Hooghly Women's College]]
* [[Techno India Hooghly]]
* [[Technic Polytechnic Institute]]

==Festivals==
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Durga Puja, Jagadhatri Puja, Kartick Puja, Kali Puja & Deepawali, Ras Yatra, Saraswati Puja, Lakshmi Puja, Navabarsho (Bengali New Year), Basanti Puja, Manasa Puja, etc. are the main festivals celebrated here. Jagadhatri Puja or Mohish Mordini puja is a very famous festival. Every year it starts from "Jamai Sasti" and continues till 4days like Durga Puja. Mohish Mordini temple is situated in Dharampur. The famous Gajan Festival is also celebrated at Sandeswartala Temple in Chinsurah near the bank of river Hooghly.

==Notable people==
* [[Muhammad Mohsin]] – Bengali philanthropist
*[[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]] – Bengali writer
*[[Bhudev Mukhopadhyay]] – Bengali writer and intellectual
*[[Kalikananda Abadhuta]] – novelist
*[[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]] – novelist (wrote the national song of India)
*[[Bijoy Modak]] – freedom fighter

==See also==
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* [[Colonial India]]
* [[Dutch Cemetery, Chinsurah]]
* [[Dutch India]]
* [[European colonies in India]]
* [[Hooghly Chinsurah Municipality]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* Dey, S. C., "Hooghly Past and Present", ''The Calcutta Review'', [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.286313 Vol.96, No.191, (January 1893), pp.22-42; No.192, (April 1893), 276-288]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68734 Vol.97, No.193, (July 1893), pp.71-81; No.194, (October 1893), 340-366];[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68735 Vol.98, No.195, (January 1894), pp.152-170]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.20929 Vol.99, No.197, (July 1894), pp.153-164]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.20875 Vol.104, No.208, (April 1897), pp.355-373.]

==External links==

* [http://www.dutchinchinsurah.com Dutch in Chinsurah] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422132654/http://www.dutchinchinsurah.com/ |date=22 April 2017 }}
* [http://www.hcm.net.in/Default.aspx?PageId=83 Hoogly Chinsurah Municipality]

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