Chandannagar

Chandannagar (Chandernagor ʃɑ̃dɛʁnaɡɔʁ), also known by its former name Chandernagore and French name Chandernagor, is a city in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is headquarter of the Chandannagore subdivision and is part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Located on the western bank of Hooghly River, the city was one of the five settlements of French India. Indo-French architecture is seen in the colonial bungalows, most of which are in a dilapidated state. The name Chandannagar is composed of two elements, of which the latter is nagar meaning 'city' and the former may be: Bengali chand meaning 'moon', alluding to the shape of the bank of the river Hooghly. Bengali chandan meaning 'sandalwood'; local tradition holds that the city was once the major hub of the trade of sandalwood. Chandi, name of a goddess. Earlier, the city was known as Farasdanga, from Bengali Faras 'French' and danga 'land'. Chandannagar came into being during colonial times, proved conclusively by the fact that no mention of the town is found in medieval Bengali texts like Chandimangal and Manasamangal Kāvya. Historians are of the opinion that the French created the town by amalgamating various smaller localities in the area. The three notable villages to be incorporated were Gondolpara to the South, Boro in the North and Khalisani to the West. The name "Chandernagor" can be first found in the letter dated 1696, intended for the officials of the French East India Company, dispatched by André Boureau-Deslandes and Palle, French officials posted in Chandernagore. The First Director of the French East India Company, Boureau-Deslandes paid 40,000 coins to the Mughal subahdar in 1688 to gain control of the area and build a factory there. But the first Frenchman to possess any subsequent land holding in this area was Du Plessis who bought land of 13 Arpents at Boro Kishanganj, now located at North Chandannagar for Taka 401 in the year 1673–74. The prosperity of Chandannagar as a French colony started soon after.

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Hooghly district

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