Cossipore | |
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Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta) | |
 A view from Satchasi Para, Cossipore | |
  Cossipore Location in Kolkata | |
| Coordinates:22°37′23″N88°22′30″E / 22.623°N 88.375°E /22.623; 88.375 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| City | Kolkata |
| District | Kolkata |
| Metro Station | Dum Dum |
| Municipal Corporation | Kolkata Municipal Corporation |
| KMC wards | 1,6 |
| Elevation | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Population | |
• Total | For population see linked KMC ward page |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 700002 |
| Area code | +91 33 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Kolkata Uttar |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Kashipur-Belgachhia |
Cossipore (also spelt asCossipur,Kashipur) is a neighbourhood ofNorth Kolkata, inKolkata district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal. One of the oldest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, it has a police station.[1] Its name has been kept after Mulakchand Dewan Kashinathji, its one-time owner. He had been gifted Cossipore byLord Clive. Mulakchand Dewan Kashinathji (b. 1721 AD) is one of the ancestors of the Burman family ofBurrabazar.
TheEast India Company obtained from theMughal emperorFarrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across theHooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall ofSiraj-ud-daulah, the last independentNawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 fromMir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc asDihi Panchannagram and Cossipore was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of theMaratha Ditch.[2][3][4]
H. E. A. Cotton writes, "The Cossipore Reach was one of the finest on the river, and is lined by a number of villa residences." From those days Cossipore had a number of industrial units. – the Government Gun Foundry, the Snider and Rifle Shell factories (originally constructed by Colonel Hutchinson), sugar mills and jute screw houses.[5]
Entally,Manicktala,Beliaghata,Ultadanga,Chitpur, Cossipore, parts ofBeniapukur,Ballygunge,Watgunge and Ekbalpur and parts ofGarden Reach andTollygunj were added to Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 1888. Garden Reach was later taken out.[6]
Ward No. 1 andWard No. 6 ofKolkata Municipal Corporation cover Cossipore. It has six prominent ghats on the Hooghly – from south - Cossipore Ghat, Sadhur Ghat, Ranir Ghat, Pramanick Ghat, Ramakrishna Mahasashan and Ratan Babu Ghat.[7]
Cossipore police station is part of theNorth and North Suburban division ofKolkata Police. Located at 58/A, Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata-700002, it has jurisdiction over Cossipore neighbourhood/Ward No. 1 ofKolkata Municipal Corporation.[8][9]
Amherst Street Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and North Suburban division i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala.[8]
Cossipore Road (Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Dev Sarani) is the artery of the area. The road is connected toB.T. Road (at Chiria More) with Khagendra Chatterjee Road.[10]
Kolkata Station (one of the major railway hub stations of the city) andDum Dum Junction are the nearest railway stations.Tala railway station andBagbazar railway station onKolkata Circular Railway line are also located nearby.
New Cossipore Generating station started producing electric for CESC from the year 1949 and has current capacity of 100 MW. This is older and uses non Pulverized Fuel to generate electricity. This unit plays a major part creating an economic eco system in its own. There are a lot of people live in Cossipore who are part of that ecosystem. But in 2015 it was closed.
Kolkata/Northern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage