THE CITY OF NIGHTMARES

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Calcutta is our tilitomma (the glamorous city), but in addition to The City of Joy, there is another name of our city "Why the City of Nightmares!" Listen to me.

The year was 1737, September 30 (In favor 11th October 1739). The English are well-organized in Kolkata. Fort William was also built, but it was good to say that there was a canal / water tank along the current Creek Row-Hastings Sarani that extends from the current Salt Lake to the Prince Ghat. They called this canal "crick" The settlement of this waterway was settled on the side of the people.

Suddenly, all the breaks came on the 30th of September (In favor11th October 1739). A destructive cyclone comes on that day, that The Hooghly river water level increased  40 ft.  The walls of the strong buildings built by the people separated from the wall of the windows, the storms of the storm, the raw house merged with the ground that night. The big business ships were destroyed by the storm, the storm storms, and even a few of them went down in the water.

According to the "Gentleman Magazine" - in the morning the city saw the enemy arbitrarily fired in the city the next morning. In the Ganges, 8 vessels of 9 ships got lost and more than 200 passengers of the ship were drowned in the water. Most of the boats were not found after the storm. A total of 30,000 people died this storm. Many animals died The Nabaratna Temple of Chitpur's famous Govinda Mittir also broke down in this storm. The crematorium of the Portuguese-built church of Calcutta is covered with a storm. Sir Francis, a member of the East India Company's Supreme Council, describes this storm in a letter from Calcutta.

Just in the following year, there was a famine in Calcutta, then the company's President Second Thomas Broadi and then the Mughal emperor Nader Shah waived the rent of Calcutta and its adjoining populations. The English company introduced sympathy to the people of Calcutta, especially in the storm providing food and clothing-shelter for homeless people.

Since then, that crick has gradually started to relax. During the time of Siraj-ud-Daula and the waterway was in existence, it was almost ripe that the waterway Several years after the Battle of Palashi, this fun road is made on the waterway, which is the current Creek Row and Wellington Square.

Since that night, a new name in Calcutta has been added to the "City of Nightmares," and this mix is ​​mixed with today's "Creek Row and Wellington Square". The current Creek Rock Road in present-day Calcutta is a small part of the waterway that adds Subodh Mallik Square and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road.

Note: At that time "Creek Row" was the local name "dingi-bhnaga”. On the map of the eighteenth century, the name of this part is "Dingi-bhanga".