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বোটানিকাল গার্ডেনস, শিবপুর, কলকাতা, ১৭৮৭ The idea for a botanical garden was first tabled in the summer of 1786 by Robert Kyd, a Secretary to the Board in the Military Department of Fort William, as a potential safeguard against famine. But it soon became something much bigger and more ambitious. Ten years earlier he hadContinue reading “The Hon’ble Company’s Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 1787”