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|subdivision_name4 = [[Central metro station, Kolkata|Central]] and [[Mahakaran metro station|Mahakaran]] (under construction)

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'''Lalbazar''' is a neighbourhood in Central [[Kolkata]], earlier known as Calcutta, in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. It is part of the [[central business district]] adjoining [[B.B.D. Bagh]] area. The headquarters of the [[Kolkata Police]] is located here (18, Lalbazar Street) and is popularly known by the same name.

==History==
The road leading from the north-east corner of [[B.B.D. Bagh]] to [[Bowbazar]] was earlier known as ‘Avenue to the eastward’. It was also known as the Great Bungalo Road. In 1768, it was said to be the best street in Kolkata.<ref name = "Cotton"/> The modern police office was the residence of John Palmer, one of the merchant princes of Kolkata. Earlier to that it was said to be ‘an old ruin of a house, formerly the residence of some native.’ The house next to it was the Harmonic Tavern, the handsomest house in its day and pulled down long back.<ref name = "Cotton">[[H. E. A. Cotton|Cotton, H.E.A.]], ''Calcutta Old and New'', 1909/1980, p. 275-276, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.</ref>

Punishment in old Kolkata was often done by hanging. There was a gibbet at the crossing of Lalbazar and Chitpore Road (now Rabindra Sarani).<ref name = "Kitson">Sidney Kitson, ''Calcutta Police, from the Crown to Ashok Pillar'',in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, edited by [[Sukanta Chaudhuri]], p. 243-245, Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-563696-3}}</ref>

==Transport==
===Road===
[[File:Bentinck Street - Lalbazar Crossing - Kolkata 2015-02-07 2126.JPG|thumb|Bentinck Street and Lalbazar Street Junction]]
Lalbazar is surrounded by Old Court House Street on the west, Bentinck Street/Rabindra Sarani on the east, India Exchange Place Road on the north and R.N. Mukherjee Road on the south. Lalbazar Street (westward extension of [[Bepin Behari Ganguly Street]]) passes through the middle of the area from east to west. Many buses ply along these roads.<ref>Google maps</ref>

===Train===
[[B.B.D Bag railway station]] on [[Kolkata Circular Railway]] line is the nearest railway station.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Wikivoyage-inline|Kolkata/Esplanade}}

{{Kolkata neighbourhoods}}

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[[Category:Neighbourhoods in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Kolkata Police Force]]

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