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Kolkata
A Company trading post of 1690 on three river villages became a colonial capital, a printing and reform powerhouse, and then a city that kept the buildings and changed the argument.
Hooghly
1690
Company post
Job Charnock settles the riverbank.
1772
Capital
Seat of British India for 139 years.
1828
Renaissance
Bengal's reform movement takes hold.
1911
Capital moves
The court departs for Delhi.