Hugli-Chuchura

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Hugli - Chunchura ( Bengali: হুগলি - চুঁচুড়া, Hugli - Cũcuṛā; anglicized also Hooghly Chinsurah ) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the Hooghly, about 40 kilometers north of Kolkata and is the seat of the district administration of the district of Hooghly. The population is around 180,000 (calculated 2007).

Name of the city

Hugli - Chunchura 1865 combined from the two places Hugli and Chunchura to a community. The spelling of the name in Latin script varies, due to various historical and phonologically justified transcriptions. There are, among others, the variants Hooghly, Hooghly Hughli, Chinsura, Chunchura and Chinsurah and several combinations thereof.

History

The place Hooghly was founded in 1579 as a trading post of the Portuguese. Until 1639 it remained in Portuguese possession. The Dutch built 1656 in Chunchura a trading post, as they held him against her principal place of business in Kolkata as preferable. 1759 British soldiers were attacked under Colonel Forde on their march to Chandannagar from the garrison in Chunchura, but in less than half an hour, the Dutch were put to flight. During the Napoleonic wars, the settlement was taken in 1795 by the British in possession. After the peace agreement of 1814, the Dutch Chunchura got back. 1825 this estate was incorporated into the colony of British India in the context of the assignment of the Dutch colonies in India by the King of the Netherlands in exchange for British possessions on Sumatra to the independence of India in 1947 (see British - Dutch Treaty of 1824).

Personalities

• Adolph Freiherr von Danckelmann, (1779-1820), German Legation Counsellor and adventurer