• Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (popularly known by its abbreviation CC&FC, or CCFC) is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata,...
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    Andrew. In 1884, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club again set up a rugby section and in 1890 set up an inter club trophy, the Calcutta Rugby Union Challenge...
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  • The Calcutta Football League (CFL) is a ladder-based football competition in the Indian state of West Bengal, organised by Indian Football Association...
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    The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab...
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    while wearing the robes of the Star of India and holding the orb and sceptre." It arrived in Calcutta in 1902 and was unveiled on the maidan by Lord Curzon...
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    clubs are Calcutta Football Club (founded in 1872, later merged with Calcutta Cricket Club founded in 1792 to form Calcutta Cricket and Football Club)...
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  • Calcutta Customs Club is an Indian institutional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. It is best known for its football section, which competes...
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  • Vece Paes (category University of Calcutta alumni)
    medicine, and served as the president of the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club. He studied Pre-medical course from Presidency College, Calcutta during 1964-65...
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    Museum of Calcutta before independence,) is a massive museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest...
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    Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, originating from the Calcutta Football League as the Kolkata derby, is one of the fiercest in the world and considered among...
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  • Prostitution in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is present in different forms and Kolkata's sex industry is one of the largest in Asia. Prostitution may be...
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  • Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) was a colonial city. The British East India Company developed Calcutta as a village by establishing an artificial riverine...
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    and is known as the Raj Bhavan, a name it shares with the official residences of other states' governors. In the early nineteenth century, Calcutta was...
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  • clubs in the country. The club has other departments for women's football, men's and women's cricket, field hockey, athletics and eSports. East Bengal was...
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    books and records, it is the largest in the country. The Imperial Library was formed in 1891 by combining a number of Secretariat libraries in Calcutta. Of...
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    Kolkata Metropolitan Area (abbreviated KMA; formerly Calcutta Metropolitan Area), also known as Greater Kolkata, is the urban agglomeration of the city...
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  • winning both the Calcutta Football League (CFL) and IFA Shield. In 1948, East Bengal became the first team to defeat a foreign club on home soil. They...
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  • University of Calcutta. The institution was elevated to university status in 2010 after functioning as a constituent college of the University of Calcutta for about...
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    ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট অ্যান্ড ফুটবল ক্লাব (সিসিএফসি)" [Maidan & Club: Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CCFC)]. archives.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Kolkata:...
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    Kolkata (Calcutta). The Sheriff has an office and staff in Calcutta High Court but does not have executive powers. Mumbai (Bombay) and Kolkata (Calcutta) are...
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    The 42 (Kolkata) (category Buildings and structures in Kolkata)
    (Calcutta High Court, GA Case No 2698 / 2013) The matter is pending before the Calcutta High Court. The 42, is coming up in between Jeevan Sudha and Tata...
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    The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It is located at Esplanade Row West, Kolkata, West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state...
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    after Ramkumar's death. Photograph of Ramnath Temple from Views of Calcutta and Barrackpore, taken by Samuel Bourne. Twelve Shiva temples at the Dakshineswar...
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  • Company tried to befriend them and, among other things, introduced them to cricket. The Calcutta Cricket and Football Club was known to be in existence...
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    Fort William is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta (Kolkata). It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal. It sits on the eastern...
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    the best-preserved and most elegant houses of nineteenth-century Calcutta. The mansion is famous for its marble walls, floors, and sculptures, from which...
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    Royal Calcutta Turf Club (RCTC) is a horse racing organisation which was founded in 1847 in Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata). Horse events and sports...
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  • 9 lakhs, which was collected partly from the public of Calcutta, assistance from Belgium, and the huge rental received from the American army that occupied...
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    Arun Lal (category Indian cricket commentators)
    award by the Cricket Association of Bengal's (CAB's) on 3 August 2019. He was served as president of the Calcutta Cricket and Football Club. Arun Lal got...
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    Writers' Building (category Buildings and structures in Kolkata)
    Kalikata became British Calcutta and finally Kolkata. From its conception, the building was designed to become the focal administrative and business hub of the...
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