Dalhousie Square (BBD Bag) (Kolkata)

India / Bangla / Barabazar / Kolkata
 downtown / central business district, Victorian (architecture), UNESCO World Heritage Site
Also called B.B.D.Bagh - B.B.D. stands for three young Indian independence activists — Benoy, Badal and Dinesh — who on 8 December 1930 shot dead the Inspector General of Prisons, N.S. Simpson, in the balconies of the Writers' Building of the then Dalhousie Square.

Situated at the heart of Calcutta, Dalhousie Square is the administrative heart and the Central Business District of the city of Calcutta. The Writers' Buildings, the administrative power house of West Bengal is situated here. Other famous buildings here are The General Post Office, Reserve Bank of India, Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Telephone Bhavan, Stephen House etc. Many government and non-government offices are situated here.

Declared a World Heritage Site, Dalhousie is replete with beautiful and majestic exemplars of Colonial Architecture and it always reminds one that the city of Calcutta was built on the lines of London. The Dalhousie Square Area is essentially one of the finest examples of colonial heritage city centres worldwide. British colonial heritage worldwide probably is present in largest numbers in this location.

Dalhousie Square is situated around a tank, known as Lal Dighi which was a source drinking water for the European residential areas in Calcutta till mid-nineteenth century.
Dalhousie Sqaure was renamed as Binoy Badal Dinesh Bag after the three freedom fighters.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._D._Bagh
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Coordinates:   22°34'17"N   88°20'52"E

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  • This place was first marked by Vaijayanta Chattoraj (vaichatt) on Aug 2007.
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