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'''Cossipore''' (also spelt as '''Cossipur''', '''Kashipur''') is a neighbourhood of [[North Kolkata]], in [[Kolkata district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. One of the oldest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, it has a police station.<ref>{{cite web
| url =http://www.kolkatapolice.org/section.asp?PSID=18&Typ=PS
| title =Cossipore Police Station
| access-date =2008-01-16
| publisher =Kolkata Police
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070608210113/http://www.kolkatapolice.org/Section.asp?PSID=18&Typ=PS
| archive-date =8 June 2007
| url-status =dead
}}</ref> Its name has been kept after Mulakchand Dewan Kashinathji, its one-time owner. He had been gifted Cossipore by [[Robert Clive|Lord Clive]].

==History==
The [[East India Company]] obtained from the [[Mughal emperors|Mughal emperor]] [[Farrukhsiyar]], in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the [[Hooghly River|Hooghly]] in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of [[Siraj-ud-daulah]], the last independent [[Nawab of Bengal]], it purchased these villages in 1758 from [[Mir Jafar]] and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as ''[[Dihi Panchannagram]]'' and Cossipore was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the [[Maratha Ditch]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/19/1916_PART_A_DCHB_KOLKATA.pdf |title = District Census Handbook Kolkata, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A |work = Pages 6-10: The History | publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal| access-date = 20 February 2018}}</ref><ref>Cotton, H.E.A., ''Calcutta Old and New'', first published 1909/reprint 1980, pages 103-4 and 221, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.</ref><ref>Nair, P.Thankappan, ''The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, pp. 14-15, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.</ref>

[[H. E. A. Cotton]] writes, "The Cossipore Reach was one of the finest on the river, and is lined by a number of villa residences." From those days Cossipore had a number of industrial units. – the Government Gun Foundry, the Snider and Rifle Shell factories (originally constructed by Colonel Hutchinson), sugar mills and jute screw houses.<ref>Cotton, H.E.A., ''Calcutta Old and New'', 1909/1980, p. 221, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.</ref>

[[Entally]], [[Manicktala]], [[Beliaghata]], [[Ultadanga]], [[Chitpur]], Cossipore, parts of [[Beniapukur]], [[Ballygunge]], [[Watgunge]] and Ekbalpur and parts of [[Garden Reach]] and [[Tollygunj]] were added to Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 1888. Garden Reach was later taken out.<ref>Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, ''Wealth and Work in Calcutta, 1860-1921'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, edited by [[Sukanta Chaudhuri]], p. 213, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-563696-3}}.</ref>

==Geography==
===KMC ward===
[[Ward No. 1, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Ward No. 1]] and [[Ward No. 6, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Ward No. 6]] of [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]] cover Cossipore. It has six prominent ghats on the Hooghly – from south - Cossipore Ghat, Sadhur Ghat, Ranir Ghat, Pramanick Ghat, Ramakrishna Mahasashan and Ratan Babu Ghat.<ref>Detail Maps of 141 Wards of Kolkata, D.R.Publication and Sales Concern, 66 College Street, Kolkata – 700073</ref>

===Police district===
Cossipore police station is part of the [[Divisions of Kolkata Police|North and North Suburban division]] of [[Kolkata Police]]. Located at 58/A, Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata-700002, it has jurisdiction over Cossipore neighbourhood/ [[Ward No. 1, Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Ward No. 1]] of [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]].<ref name="police">{{cite web |url = http://www.kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=3&Division=X |title = Kolkata Police |work = North and North Suburban Division |publisher = KP |access-date = 5 March 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180330083931/http://kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=3&Division=X |archive-date = 30 March 2018 |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbcensus.gov.in/DataTables/02/Table4_1.htm |title= Table 3 District Wise List of Statutory Towns (Municipal Corporation, Municipality, Notified Area and Cantonment Board), Census Towns and Outgrowths, West Bengal, 2001 |access-date= 17 July 2016 |work=Census of India 2001 |publisher=Census Commission of India |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110721163402/http://web.cmc.net.in/wbcensus/DataTables/01/Table-3.htm |archive-date=21 July 2011 }}</ref>

[[Amherst Street (Kolkata)#Police district|Amherst Street Women police station]] covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and North Suburban division i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala.<ref name="police"/>

==Transport==
Cossipore Road (Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Dev Sarani) is the artery of the area. The road is connected to [[Barrackpore Trunk Road|B.T. Road]] (at Chiria More) with Khagendra Chatterjee Road.<ref>Google maps</ref>

===Bus===
====Private Bus====
* 34B [[Dunlop, Kolkata|Dunlop]] - [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade]]
* 43 [[Dakshineswar]] - [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade]]
* 242 Cossipore 4B - [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade]]

====CSTC Bus====
* S69 Cossipore - [[Santragachi]]
* S17A Ariadaha - [[Kudghat]]

===Train===
[[Kolkata Station]] (one of the major railway hub stations of the city) and [[Dum Dum Junction]] are the nearest railway stations. [[Tala railway station]] and [[Bagbazar railway station]] on [[Kolkata Circular Railway]] line are also located nearby.

==Cossipore Electric Generating Station==

New Cossipore Generating station started producing electric for CESC from the year 1949 and has current capacity of 100 MW. This is older and uses non Pulverized Fuel to generate electricity. This unit plays a major part creating an economic eco system in its own. There are a lot of people live in Cossipore who are part of that ecosystem. But in 2015 it was closed.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Sarbamangola Kali Temple 01.jpg|Sarbamangala Chitteshwari Temple, Cossipore
File:Sarbamangala Chitteswari Temple 2.jpg|Sarbamangala Chitteshwari Temple Inside View
File:Sarvamangala Temple Interior.jpg|Sarbamangala Chitteshwari Temple Interior View
File:Durga at Adi Chitteswari Temple 03.jpg|Durga Idol at Chitteswari Temple
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Kolkata neighbourhoods}}

[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Kolkata]]

==External links==
{{Wikivoyage-inline|Kolkata/Northern fringes}}

Cossipore - Revision history

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