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Who was Fort William in Kolkata named after, and why it needed renaming
Fort William in Kolkata, the headquarters of the Indian Army's Eastern Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg. This change is part of the Modi government's initiative to free the nation of British ...
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Is renaming Fort William an act of erasing empire or erasing history?
The defence ministry’s decision to rename Kolkata’s historic Fort William as Vijaydurg, after a fort in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg, has sparked a debate among historians, military veterans and ...
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‘It will stay Fort William for many years to come’
Kolkata: The renaming of the nearly 250-year-old Fort William — the only fort in the world where not a single shot was ever fired — to Vijay Durg by the Narendra Modi govt found little favour ...
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How the Old Fort William and St Anne’s Church were lost in the annals of Calcutta’s history
Black Hole Memorial in Kolkata Over time, the old Fort William gradually vanished from the conscious mind space of the city. All that remains today are the obscure brass lines from where we had ...