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খিদিরপুর ব্রিজ, কলকাতা, ১৮২৬ The Kidderpore Bridge,the earliest stone-and-iron suspension bridge in India, lay at the end of the Course – the road that crossed the Maidan. It was the oldest road on the Maidan and was described in 1768 as being made to take the air. But, as an old song goes, ‘those whoContinue reading “Kidderpore Bridge, Calcutta, 1826”