Strand Road, also referred to as The Strand, is a major thoroughfare in downtown

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. Running along the east bank of the

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, the road connects

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Prinsep Ghat Prinsep Ghat is a '' ghat'' built in 1841 during the British Raj, along the Kolkata bank of the Hooghly River in India. The Palladian porch in the memory of the eminent Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary James Prinsep was designed by W. Fitzger ...

(in the

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neighbourhood) via the threshold of

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. South of

, Strand Road becomes St. Georges Gate Road.

History

Strand Road was completed in 1828,Cotton, H. E. A. (1907). Calcutta, Old and New. W. Newman & Co. undertaken by the Lottery Committee, along what was previously a long sedge bank. According to the historian

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, the road ran from

to Hatkhola Ghat. The area around Prinsep Ghat had a large portion of riverbank reclaimed and thrown into the roadway. Erected in 1838, Baboo Ghat is a significant monument in

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style on Strand Road. It was commissioned by Baboo Raj Chundrer Das, husband of

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, founder of

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. Immediately west of the

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is Chandpal Ghat, named after Chunder Nath Pal, who owned a shop at the site for the ‘refreshment of pedestrians and boatmen’. The ghat dates from at least 1774 (predating Strand Road itself) and eventually became the point at which the colonial rulers and administrators of India would arrive and leave the city prior to the advent of rail travel.

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Babughat Babughat (also Babooghat, or Baje Kadamtala Ghat, and ''Baboo Raj Chandra Ghat'') is one of the many ghats built during British Raj, along the bank of Hooghly River on Strand Road, Kolkata at B. B. D. Bagh, Kolkata. The ghat has a tall colo ...

Gallery

File:Babu Ghat - Strand Road - Kolkata 2013-09-07 2197.JPG,

, Strand Road File:Samriddhi Bhavan - Strand Road - Kolkata 2012-09-22 0344.JPG, Samriddhi Bhavan, Strand Road File:New Secretariat Building - 1 Kiran Shankar Roy Road - Strand Road View - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0318.JPG, New Secretariat Building, Strand Road File:Metcalfe Hall - 12 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0335.JPG,

Metcalfe Hall Metcalfe Hall is a heritage building situated in Kolkata, India, at the junction of Strand Road and Hare Street in the heart of the city's business district. The architecture is reflective of the British imperial architecture at the middle of ...

, Strand Road File:Jeevan Ganga Building - LIC - 16 Hare Street - Strand Road View - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0343-0346.tif, Jeevan Ganga Building (LIC), Strand Road File:Kolkata Port Trust Building - 15 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0361.JPG, Kolkata Port Trust Building, Strand Road File:Custom House - 15-1 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0371.JPG, Custom House, Strand Road File:Eastern Railway Building - 17 Netaji Subhas Road - Strand Road View - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0419.JPG, Eastern Railway Building, Strand Road File:Diamond Heritage - Commercial Building - 16 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0411.JPG, Diamond Heritage, Strand Road File:Marshall House - 25 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0473.JPG, Mersall House, Strand Road File:Mohta House - 29 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0495.JPG, Mohta House, Strand Road File:Nagreswar Mahadev Mandir - 35 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0514.JPG, Nagreswar Mahadev Mandir, Strand Road File:Raja Katra - 167 Netaji Subash Road - Strand Road View - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0598.JPG, Raja Katra, Strand Road File:Mayo Hospital - 67-1 Strand Road - Kolkata 2016-10-11 0687.JPG, Mayo Hospital, Strand Road

References

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