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=====THIS PAGE IS WAITING FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION===== '''Howrah''' is situated across the river from [[Calcutta]], on the west bank of the Hugli River. It was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_212.gif Howrah District] in the division of the same name in the [[West Bengal Districts]] during the British period.
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|transport= ‘[[East Indian Railway]]’ (EIR), ‘[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]]’(BNR) , ‘[[Howrah-Amta Light Railway]]’ and '[[Howrah-Sheakhalla Light Railway]]’''See page'' '''[[Howrah Railway Station]]''' ''for details''
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==Cemeteries==
[[Image:India Bantra Cemetery entry, Howrah., 2007.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Entrance to Bantra Cemetery, Howrah]]
*[[Bantra ]] Cemetery
*Many maritime related burials took place at Howrah, where St Thomas' Church and Cemetery were established in 1833. See external link below to Bengal Obituary
== Howrah Bridge==
''See also separate page'' '''[[Howrah Floating Bridge and Howrah Bridge]]''' ''for further information''<br>The Howrah Bridge was designed to link Howrah with the city of [[Calcutta]]. The old Floating Pontoon Bridge was built by Sir [[Bradford Leslie]] in 1874. It was largely a timber construction which opened to let river traffic through. [[Image:Howrah Bridge - Calcutta.jpg|right|thumb|200x|View of old Floating Pontoon Howrah Bridge]]
In 1937 work began on a new bridge - which is a landmark of Kolkata (Calcutta) today, being one of the foremost cantilever bridges in the world. It was formally opened in 1943 and the old bridge was decommissioned soon after in 1946. The new bridge was renamed Rabindra Setu in 1965 to honour Rabindranath Tagore - the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, it is still commonly referred to as the Howrah Bridge.
==External links==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_219.gif Howrah City] Imperial Gazetteer<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090117073242/http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/skchhowrahdoc.html A view of the Howrah Dockyard] , now archived from the website of the [http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/index2.html home/content/en Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta]<br>
*[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2261676/Cliff-Richards-India-How-singers-career-actually-began-Calcutta.html Cliff's Calcutta: How Richard's singing career actually began in the British Raj] by Steve Turner 13 January 2013 dailymail.co.uk. The singer Cliff Richards once lived in Howrah
===Historical books online===
*[http://nlirepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/9096 ''An Account of Howrah, Past and Present''] by C D Banerjei 1872. Pdf download from National Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/howrahomalley01omal#page/n5/mode/2up ''Bengal District Gazetteers: Howrah''] 1909 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/bengalobituaryo00calgoog#page/n345/mode/2up List of burials at Howrah] (Bengal Obituary) archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.510652/2015.510652.The-Gazette#page/n157/mode/2up/ List of Graves at Howrah Cemetery in a ruinous condition] page 701 ''Gazette of India April 3, 1915''. Subsequently repeated [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.510652/2015.510652.The-Gazette#page/n561/mode/2up/ page 774] ''Gazette of India April 17, 1915''.
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