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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHINSURA

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 235 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHINSURA , a town of British India, on the Hugli river, 24 m. above Calcutta, formerly the
principal
  Dutch
settlement
  in
Bengal
 . The Dutch erected a factory here in 1656, on a healthy spot of ground, much preferable to that on which Calcutta is situated. In 1759 a British force under Colonel Forde was attacked by the garrison of Chinsura on its
march
  to
Chandernagore
 , but in less than half an hour the Dutch were entirely routed. In 1795, during the Napoleonic wars, the
settlement
  was occupied by a British garrison. At the peace of 1814 it was restored to the Dutch. It was among the cessions in India made by the king of the
Netherlands
  in 1825 in exchange for the British possessions in
Sumatra
 . Hugli College is maintained by government; and there are a number of schools, several of which are carried on by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries. Chinsura is included in the Hugli municipality.


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