College Dupleix to Chandernagore College: The Journey from Revolution to Emancipation contains in detail the revolutionary activities and the secret societies that came up in Chandernagore with the sole motto of driving out the British through armed revolution.
Long before the formation of Calcutta by Job Charnock from the amalgamation of Sutanati, Kalikata and Gobindapur, Chandernagore had already come into existence by merging three villages – Boro Kishanpur, Khalisani and Goldalpara. Settled in by the French in 1673 and later developed as a commercial hub, the town fell into British hands in 1757 and once again in 1794.
The French Consul General in Kolkata, Mr Damien Syed, on Monday said that the percentage of tourist and student visas…
