The Bengalee published a piece which claimed with sharp irony the British should be declared above law since Indian courts hardly found them guilty of any crime...

A notice was published in The London Gazette on March 8, 1870, detailing the process of Calcutta and South-eastern Railway Company dissolution...

Governor-General Bentinck, a Utilitarian like Macaulay, passed a resolution that gave official status to Macaulay’s observations...

Ambika Chakrabarty passed away on this day at age of 70...

James Pattison Walker left Calcutta with first batch of 200 convicts to be sent to penal colony of Andaman Islands...

Bengal Sultanate army and the Mughal forces, under Emperor Akbar, met on this day in the Battle of Tukaroi...

Louise Penny seems more invested in fleshing out her characters and the ambience rather than in her plot...

Otago Daily Times, available on the website of the National Library of New Zealand, has a report of a visit to Calcutta...

The British East India Company’s Supreme Council of Bengal signed the Treaty of Purandhar ...

Legend of the Bengali stage Girish Chandra Ghosh was born on this day...