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Princep Ghat

Princep Ghat

Prinsep Ghat is a ghat built in 1841 during the British Raj, along the Kolkata bank of the Hooghly River. The Prinsep Ghat was built in the memory of James Prinsep who was an extraordinarily brilliant Anglo-Indian researcher and scholar. He carried tenacious research works on meteorology, chemistry, Indian scriptures, numismatics, archaeology, mineral resources etc.

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Posted on: 7/26/2020

Hazarduari Palace

Hazarduari Palace

Hazarduari Palace, earlier known as the Bara Kothi, is located in the campus of Kila Nizamat in Murshidabad, West Bengal. It is situated near the bank of river Ganga. It was built in the nineteenth century by architect Duncan Macleod, under the reign of Nawab Nazim Humayun Jah of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.

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Posted on: 7/11/2020

Khosh Bagh

Khosh Bagh

Khosh Bagh literally means "Garden of Happiness" is the garden-cemetery of the Nawabs of Bengal, situated on the west bank of the Bhagirathi river in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Khushbagh hosts the graves of the Nawabs of Bengal of the Afshar dynasty and their family members.

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Posted on: 7/1/2020

Jambu Island

Jambu Island

Jambu Island or Jambudwip is the name of an isolated island situated in the Bay of Bengal in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Jambu was declared as a notified “Reserved Forest” in 1943 under Section 20 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927. Since 1989, it becomes part of the Buffer Zone of the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve.

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Posted on: 5/15/2020

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