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CHANDERNAGORE

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 838 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CHANDERNAGORE , or CHANDARNAGAl2, a French
settlement
  in India, with a small adjoining territory, situated on the right bank of the river Hugli, 20 M. above Calcutta, in 22 51' 40" N. and 88 24' 50" E. Area 3 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 25,000. Chandernagore has played an important
part
  in the European history of Bengal. It became a permanent French
settlement
  in 1688, but did not rise to any importance till the time of
Dupleix
 , during whose administration more than two thousand brick houses were erected in the town and a considerable maritime
trade
  was carried on. In 1757 Chandernagore was bombarded by an English
fleet
  under
Admiral
 
Watson
  and captured; the fortifications and houses were afterwards demolished. On peace being established the town was restored to the French in 1763. When hostilities afterwards broke out in 1794, it was again taken possession of by the English, and was held by them till 1816, when it was a second time given up to the French; it has ever since remained in their possession. All the former commercial grandeur of Chanders nagore has now passed away, and at present it is little more than a quiet suburb of Calcutta, without any external
trade
 . The European town is situated at the bottom of a beautiful reach of the Hugli, with clean wide thoroughfares, and many elegant
residences along the river-bank. The authorities of Chandernagore are subject to the
jurisdiction
  of the
governor
 -general of Pondicherry, to whom is confided the general government of all the French possessions in India.


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