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See Imperial Gazetteer Volume 11 Page 340 and other pages
Diamond Harbour is about 50 miles(80km) downstream of Calcutta on the Hooghly River. It was a favourite anchorage of the East India Company’s ships in olden times. It suffered terribly in the cyclone of 1864, which swept away large numbers of its inhabitants [1]
Further Information
See Calcutta Port and Docks - Railways for details of early proposals to make Wet Docks at Diamond Harbour
References
- ↑ ‘Imperial Gazetteer of India’, v. 11, p. 340. ; Retrieved 24 Mar 2018
