Heritage Trivia

Bengali entrepreneurs, their history goes back to Dwarkanath Tagore who acquired the Raniganj collieries in 1836 from  an English agency...

With the Mughal conquest of Bengal zamindar became a generic title embracing people with different kinds of landholdings and rights....

The diversity of India’s corporate history, is peppered with names  such as The Assam Company, Andrew Yule, Williamson Magor, Harrisons...

With the East India Company, not only the British but the Irish and Scots made India and more specifically Calcutta...

Verandahs , were introduced by the Portuguese, though the word itself is of Indian origin as mentioned in dictionaries. In-...

British historian Philip Davies had once said of the Hooghly river that it is not just one Indian river, but...