EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BARANAGAR
Baranagar is a town in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. It is home to the Indian Statistical Institute, the famous gun shell factory of the Indian Ministry of Defence, and an important jute mill on the banks of Hooghly river. It is a major industrial center for the manufacture of agricultural and industrial machinery, chemicals, castor oil, and matches; there are also numerous cotton-processing companies. It is the fourth most densely populated city proper in the world.
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History
The Dutch had homes here in the seventeenth century. Streynsham Master who visited the area in 1676 spoke of the hog factory where about 3,000 hogs a ...
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Baranagar city is governed by Municipal Corporation which comes under Kolkata Metropolitan Region. The Baranagar city is located in West Bengal state ...
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