Cossipore

Cossipore (also spelt as Cossipur, Kashipur) is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indianstate of West Bengal. One of the oldest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, it has a police station. Its name has been kept after Mulakchand Dewan Kashinathji, its one-time owner. He had been gifted Cossipore by Lord Clive.