হুগলী নদীর জলযান পরিসেবায় নিয়জিত বেঙ্গল পাইলট সার্ভিস, ১৬৬৯-১৯৪৫ According to James Prinsep’s Chronological Tables, in the year ‘1669 orders from home were received, to institute a pilot establishment at Hoogly, to build a pinnace to be manned with intelligent seamen from the Indiamen, to take charge of the shipping up and down’. Thus originated theContinue reading “Bengal Pilot Service on River Hooghly, c 1850s”
Calcutta: as she was – a visual documentation of socio-cultural ethos spanning over three centuries
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