Hugli-Chunchura
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| State : | West Bengal | ||
| District : | Hugli | ||
| Sub-district : | Chinsurah | ||
| Location : | 22 ° 55 ' N , 88 ° 24' E | ||
| Area : | 17.29 km² | ||
| Residents : | 177,833 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 10,285 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Website : | http://hcm.net.in/Default.aspx?PageID=62 | ||
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Hugli-Chunchura ( Bengali : হুগলি-চুঁচুড়া , Huglī-Cũcuṛā ; Anglicizing also Hooghly-Chinsurah ) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal . It is located on Hugli , about 40 kilometers north of Kolkata , and is the seat of the district administration of the Hugli district . The population was around 180,000 in the 2011 census.
name of the city
Hugli-Chunchura was merged in 1865 from the two places Hugli and Chunchura into one municipality. The spelling of the place name in Latin script varies, which is due to different historically and phonologically based transcriptions. There are the variants Hooghly , Hugli , Hughli , Chinsura , Chunchura and Chinsurah as well as several combinations thereof.
history
The place Hugli was founded in 1579 as a trading post of the Portuguese. It remained in Portuguese ownership until 1639 . The Dutch established a trading post in Chunchura in 1656 because they considered it preferable to their previous headquarters in Kolkata . In 1759 British soldiers under Colonel Forde were attacked by the Chunchura garrison on their march to Chandannagar , but in less than half an hour the Dutch were put to flight. During the Napoleonic Wars , the settlement was taken over by the British in 1795. After the peace treaty of 1814, the Dutch got Chunchura back. In 1825 this property was incorporated into the British India colony as part of the cession of the Dutch colonies in India by the King of the Netherlands in exchange for British possessions on Sumatra until India's independence in 1947 (see British-Dutch Treaty of 1824 ).
Personalities
- Adolph Freiherr von Danckelmann (1779–1820), German legation councilor and adventurer
