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Sunday, June 30, 2013

A Tour with the fourth great grand son of lieutenant Governor of Bengal ...

STEPHEN BOSANQUET IS BACK TO SEE HOW HIS FOREFATHER, THE CHOTO LAAT OF BENGAL, RULED THE COUNTRY.....We are honoured to organize his (great great grandson of lieutenant general of Bengal Augustus Rivers Thompson) tour in Kolkata and help him explore his roots.
Our Cemetery Tour Rocks !!
We helped him to find the graves of his ancestors at Park street Cemetery and we found all of them. We arranged for a permission: to take a picture at the National Library as he wished for one, we are well known for our unique tours in Kolkata(Calcutta) India. we are specialist in all guided tours in Kolkata: Walking tours, City tours, ghat tours, cemetery tours,Haunted House Tours, Music tours, Gastronomic tours, Photo Tours, orientation tours, study tours, shopping tours, Kolkata Night Photo Tours, slum tours, Yoga Tours, old City Tours, Temple Tours & River Tours.  www.letsmeetuptours.com



Tour Expert Indu with Mr. STEPHEN BOSANQUET at the Former House of Warren Hastings on 28th June 2013 





Monday, January 28, 2013

Kolkata: The City that still holds onto its History.

Bangal (undivided Bengal included Bangladesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Tripura and Orissa) Bengal was sporadically a part of the Delhi Sultanate till 1580, Man Singh a trusted general of Akbar (Mughal Emperor of India ) and he was the first Moghul Viceroy for sometime the subahdar of Bengal. He was assigned with the collection of rent in lower Bengal to the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family,they were the Zamindar (superior landlords) of the Kolkata.



Among the three villages Sutanati, Gobinda pur and Kalikata ,Sutanati was probably the more ancient of these three habitations. The Portugese ships anchored at Betor on the opposite bank and bought goods from this Village till 1632 .It was definitely the most populous and prosperous, engaged in the production and export of cotton textiles. The expulsion of the Portuguese from the Hugli and all Moghul territories created an opportunity for the English to move in. An English factory was established at Golghat in Hugli town in 1650, with subordinate establishments at Cossimbazar for silk and indigo, at Patna for indigo and at Hajipur for saltpetre.

The Portuguese Church at Kolkata.
                                        The Portugese used to send river boats to bring 
                                       down the goods from Satgaon. About 1575, however, 
                                       the Portugese received permission from the Emperor Akbar to found a settlement   at the town of Hooghly, and they prepared to bring their ships further up while enjoying the Emperor's goodwill.


Guests from Hong Kong. 


This is again a British Church in Kolkata. During the world war II the soldiers of the American army often came here to Pray.



                                               The Park street Cemetery st Kolkata.


Our Guest from U.K with Tour expert Indu at the Park street Cemetery.









Chinese Temple at old China Town Kolkata.
                                           Chinese school


                                     St.John's church
























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                                                    Tour expert  Indu and Jessica (from Australia).