English: T. & W. Daniell, Oriental Scenery (1798) Chourangi (detail) now at Victoria Memorial.
Copy of Plate 6 of the second set of Thomas and William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.' By the end of the 18th Century Calcutta was a flourishing city with beautiful public buildings and grand houses. The road to Chowringhee was a broad avenue on the east side of the Maidan where some of the grandest of Calcutta's neo-classical villas were situated. Although almost exclusively a British residential area, the land was normally owned and the houses erected by the local Bengali merchants and rented out
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20th century
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Calcutta - the Living City
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