Jorabagan is a neighbourhood of

North Kolkata North Kolkata encompasses the northern part of Kolkata, including the city's oldest neighbourhood. Shyambazar, Bagbazar, Kumartuli, Shobhabazar, Posta, Jorasanko, Rajabazar, Phoolbagan, Maniktala, Kankurgachi, Ultadanga, Chitpur, Belgachia, ...

, in

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, in the

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. As a neighbourhood, it covers a small area but its importance is primarily because of the police station.

Etymology

Jorabagan, meaning ‘a pair of gardens’ in Bengali, was so named because the road through it led to the garden houses of

Gobindram Mitter Gobindram Mitter (also spelt Govindram Mitra, Gobindaram Mitra, Gobinda Ram Mitra, Gobindro Ram Mitro) was one of the earliest Indian officials during the East India Company, Company rule in India, who earned reputation for his wealth and extrav ...

and Umichand.

History

Jorabagan is part of old

Sutanuti Sutanuti was one of the three villages which were merged to form the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India. The other two villages were Gobindapur and Kalikata. See also * European colonies in India Colonial India was the part of th ...

. It is in this neighbourhood that

Job Charnock Job Charnock (; –1692/1693) was an English administrator with the East India Company. He is commonly regarded as the founder of the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta); however, this view is challenged, and in 2003 the Calcutta High Court de ...

made his famous landing at Sutanuti ghat in 1690. Mohunton's ghat between Beniatola and

Shobhabazar Shobhabazar (also spelt Sovabazar; bn, শোভাবাজার) is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, in the Indian state of West Bengal. History Sheths and Basaks, well-to-do traders at Saptagram, were among the first ...

ghats lurks the forgotten traditional landing place. There was a large tree under which Job Charnock is believed to have rested.Cotton, H.E.A., p. 282 The Sabarna Roy Choudhury Paribar Parishad, and nine other intellectuals of the city filed a public interest litigation before the

Kolkata High Court The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It is located in B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata, West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The High Court buildi ...

in 2001 demanding a probe into the matter whether

can be regarded as the founder of Kolkata. The Court, upon an Expert Committee finding, declared that Job Charnock cannot be regarded as the founder of the city.Sabarna Prithivi - website of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family
/ref> In 1888, one of the 25 newly organized police section houses was located in Jorabagan.

Geography

Nimtala ghat Nimtala Crematorium is located on Beadon Street, Kolkata, India. The crematorium is also historically known as Nimtala burning ghat, or simply Nimtala ghat. Located on the banks of Hoogly ( Ganga) it is considered to be one of the holiest burn ...

in the neighbourhood is the burning ghat where Hindus cremate their dead. Amongst the more renowned people cremated there was

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

and the place is marked with a memorial structure. Nimtala ghat now has an electric crematorium.

Police district

Jorabagan police station is part of the North and North Suburban division of

Kolkata Police The Kolkata Police Force (KPF) is one of the two presidency police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. Kolkata Police has the task of policing the metropolitan area (apart from Bidhannagar and New Town, which are served by the Bidhannag ...

. It is located at 78, Nimtala Ghat Street, Kolkata-700006. Amherst Street Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and the North Suburban division i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala.

Transport

Road

Jorabagan is surrounded by Strand Road on the west, Kali Krishna Tagore Street on the south, Rabindra Sarani on the east and Nimtala Ghat Street on the north. Baishab Seth Street-PK Tagore Street-Jadulal Mullick Road passes through the middle of the locality from north to south. Many buses and auto-rickshaws ply along these roads.Google map

Train

Burra Bazar railway station Burra Bazar railway station is a small railway station in the town of Burrabazar. It serves the local areas of Burrabazar and M.G. Road in Kolkata, West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the e ...

Kolkata Circular Railway Kolkata Circular Railway, also known as the Kolkata Chakra Rail (), is a long railway loop line operated by the Sealdah division of the Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways, encircling the city of Kolkata. Services The line begins and term ...

line is the nearest railway station.

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References

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