Calcutta

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city commercial centre cultural centre former national capital metropolis

Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, is a major cultural and commercial metropolis in eastern India that served as the capital of British India until the early 20th century.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form	Occurrences
Kolkata	72
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India	2
Calcutta (historical association with Government of India)	1
Central Kolkata	1
Kolkata, India	1
Port of Kolkata	1
city of Kolkata	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ commercial centre ⓘ cultural centre ⓘ former national capital ⓘ metropolis ⓘ
capitalOf	British India ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
endTimeAsCapitalOfBritishIndia	1911 ⓘ
formerNameOf	Calcutta self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kolkata
foundedBy	British East India Company ⓘ
foundingYear	1690 ⓘ
hasFormerName	Calcutta self-linksurface differs ⓘ
hasLandmark	Eden Gardens ⓘ Fort William, Kolkata ⓘ Howrah Bridge ⓘ Indian Museum ⓘ St. Paul’s Cathedral, Kolkata ⓘ Victoria Memorial ⓘ Writers’ Building ⓘ
hasPort	Calcutta self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Port of Kolkata
hasUniversity	Jadavpur University ⓘ Presidency College, Kolkata ⓘ surface form: Presidency University, Kolkata University of Calcutta ⓘ
knownFor	cinema ⓘ colonial architecture ⓘ intellectual life ⓘ literature ⓘ theatre ⓘ visual arts ⓘ
locatedIn	India ⓘ eastern India ⓘ
locatedInCountrySubdivision	Bengal Presidency ⓘ
locatedInState	West Bengal ⓘ
locatedOnRiver	Hooghly River ⓘ
majorIndustry	finance ⓘ information technology ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ port trade ⓘ
majorLanguage	Bengali ⓘ English ⓘ
officialNameSince2001	Calcutta self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kolkata
partOfRegion	Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system ⓘ surface form: Ganges Delta
replacedByAsCapitalOfBritishIndia	New Delhi, India ⓘ surface form: New Delhi
servedAs	capital of Bengal Presidency ⓘ capital of British India ⓘ
startTimeAsCapitalOfBritishIndia	1772 ⓘ
timeZone	Indian Standard Time ⓘ
UTCOffset	+05:30 ⓘ

Referenced by (154)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anjezë → activeIn → Calcutta ⓘ

subject surface form: Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Bengal Presidency → administrativeCentre → Calcutta ⓘ

Calcutta Time → appliesTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: city of Kolkata

Bengali Renaissance → associatedCity → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Knight Grand Commander → associatedOrderSeat → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Calcutta (historical association with Government of India)

Teresa → associatedPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Wajid Ali Shah → associatedWith → Calcutta ⓘ

Debendranath Tagore → birthPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak → birthPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Sri Aurobindo → birthPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Surendranath Banerjee → birthPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

C. R. Das → burialPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Surendranath Banerjee → burialPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Wajid Ali Shah → burialPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Bengal Presidency → capital → Calcutta ⓘ

British India → capital → Calcutta ⓘ

Company rule in India → capital → Calcutta ⓘ

West Bengal → capital → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Indian state of West Bengal → capital → Calcutta ⓘ

subject surface form: West Bengal

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Eden Gardens → city → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Jadavpur University → city → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Jorasanko Thakur Bari → city → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Presidency College, Kolkata → city → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Tagore family → city → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Direct Action Day → cityNowKnownAs → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Fort William, Kolkata → cityServed → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Howrah → connectedByBridgeTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Howrah Bridge → connects → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Agra Cantt railway station → connectsTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Chennai Central railway station → connectsTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Bengaluru Station → connectsTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

New Delhi Railway Station → connectsTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Porbandar railway station → connectsTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Pune Junction → connectsTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Veer Savarkar International Airport → connectsTo → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Agra Fort railway station → connectsToCity → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Bengal Presidency → contains → Calcutta ⓘ

West Bengal → containsCity → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay → deathPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Bipin Chandra Pal → deathPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

Debendranath Tagore → deathPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

Michael Madhusudan Dutt → deathPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India

Mother Teresa → deathPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Teresa → deathPlace → Calcutta ⓘ

subject surface form: Mother Teresa

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Chandannagar → distanceFrom → Calcutta ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolkata

Dwijendranath Tagore → educatedIn → Calcutta ⓘ

British East India Company → establishedTradingPost → Calcutta ⓘ

Wajid Ali Shah → exiledTo → Calcutta ⓘ

Jana Gana Mana → firstPerformancePlace → Calcutta ⓘ