Calcutta
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Calcutta was founded on 24 August 1690 by Job Charnock of the English
East India Company at the village of Kalikata on the banks of the Hooghly river in
Bengal. It grew quickly as Bengal displaced
Madras as the company's leading commercial region. Following Robert
Clive's victory at the battle of
Plassey in 1757, a new Fort William was built and came to constitute the centre from which the company's political expansion in India took place. The town attracted a large British community and in 1834 became recognized as the official capital of British India. From the 1870s, a jute industry also developed to complement Calcutta's already advanced commercial and administrative functions. In 1901 the city had a population of 1 million and was the second largest in the British empire after London. However, in 1912 the capital was removed to
New Delhi and Calcutta began what has been a long decline.
David Anthony Washbrook
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camphor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Lapworth, Arthur
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...collaborating with F. S. Kipping in studies on camphor. He, Kipping, and W. H. Perkin...nearly forty years. In his early work on camphor, he recognized an intramolecular change...acceptance of Bredt ’ s structure for camphor. A little later he began the study of...
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Meduna, Ladislas J.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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laurel
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