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'''Jorabagan''' is a neighbourhood of [[North Kolkata]], in [[Kolkata district]], in the [[Indian state]] of [[West Bengal]]. As a neighbourhood, it covers a small area but its importance is primarily because of the police station.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kolkatapolice.org/Section.asp?PSID=2&Typ=PS |title=Jorabagan Police Station |access-date=2008-01-10 |publisher=Kolkata Police |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070608054957/http://www.kolkatapolice.org/Section.asp?PSID=2&Typ=PS |archive-date=8 June 2007 }}</ref>

== Etymology ==
Jorabagan, meaning ‘a pair of gardens’ in Bengali, was so named because the road through it led to the garden houses of [[Gobindram Mitter]] and [[Legendary personalities in Bengal#Umichand|Umichand]].<ref>[[H. E. A. Cotton|Cotton, H.E.A.]], ''Calcutta Old and New'', 1909/1980, p 104, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.</ref>

== History ==
Jorabagan is part of old [[Sutanuti]]. It is in this neighbourhood that [[Job Charnock]] made his famous landing at Sutanuti ghat in 1690. Mohunton's ghat between Beniatola and [[Shobhabazar]] ghats lurks the forgotten traditional landing place. There was a large tree under which Job Charnock is believed to have rested.<ref name = "Cotton">Cotton, H.E.A., p. 282</ref>

The Sabarna Roy Choudhury Paribar Parishad, and nine other intellectuals of the city filed a public interest litigation before the [[Kolkata High Court]] in 2001 demanding a probe into the matter whether [[Job Charnock]] can be regarded as the founder of Kolkata. The Court, upon an Expert Committee finding, declared that Job Charnock cannot be regarded as the founder of the city.<ref>''Bangiya Sabarna Katha Kalishetra Kalikatah'' by Bhabani Roy Choudhury, {{in lang|bn}}, Manna Publication. {{ISBN|81-87648-36-8}}</ref><ref name = "Pritivi">[http://www.devarshi.faithweb.com Sabarna Prithivi - website of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family]</ref>

In 1888, one of the 25 newly organized police section houses was located in Jorabagan.<ref>Nair, P.Thankappan, ''The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, pp. 18-19, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.</ref>

== Geography ==
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[[Nimtala crematorium|Nimtala ghat]] in the neighbourhood is the burning ghat where Hindus cremate their dead.<ref name = "Cotton"/> Amongst the more renowned people cremated there was [[Rabindranath Tagore]] and the place is marked with a memorial structure. Nimtala ghat now has an electric crematorium.

===Police district===
Jorabagan police station is part of the [[Divisions of Kolkata Police|North and North Suburban division]] of [[Kolkata Police]]. It is located at 78, Nimtala Ghat Street, Kolkata-700006.<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}}</ref>

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

==Transport==
===Road===
Jorabagan is surrounded by [[Strand Road, Kolkata|Strand Road]] on the west, Kali Krishna Tagore Street on the south, Rabindra Sarani on the east and Nimtala Ghat Street on the north. Baishab Seth Street-PK Tagore Street-Jadulal Mullick Road passes through the middle of the locality from north to south. Many buses and auto-rickshaws ply along these roads.<ref>Google map</ref>

===Train===
[[Burra Bazar railway station]] on [[Kolkata Circular Railway]] line is the nearest railway station.

==External links==
{{Wikivoyage-inline|Kolkata/North Kolkata}}

== References ==
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{{Kolkata neighbourhoods}}

[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Kolkata]]

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