The City of Hooghly Chinsurah

Chinsurah is a historic Dutch colonial town located by the river Ganges in the Indian state of West Bengal. Since its founding by the Dutch traders in the seventeenth century and subsequent cession to the British in exchange for the island of Sumatra, the town has been in the forefront in some of the key chapters of colonial rule in India and the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Chinsurah, with its twin Hooghly, is closely associated with the work and lives of the stalwarts in Indian history like Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Debendranath Tagore, Bhudeb Mukherjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and Kazi Nazrul Islam, to name a few.