Asiatic Society of Bengal, scholarly society founded on Jan. 15, 1784, by Sir William Jones, a British lawyer and Orientalist, to encourage Oriental studies. At its founding, Jones delivered the first of a famous series of discourses.

Diwali is celebrated in the honour of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth.

The arm of the Ganges that runs through Calcutta is known as the Hooghly River. It is the large, pale green river running through the left side of the image. Calcutta, also referred to as Kolkata, is about 100 miles north of where the Hooghly empties into the Bay via the Mouths of the Ganges.

Mangal Pandey was arrested and sentenced to death after he attacked British officers in Barrackpore on March 29, 1857.

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[A] Clan. During the Rig Vedic Age the family was part of a larger grouping which was called vis or clan. One or more than one clans made jana or tribe. The largest social unit was known as jana.

Haldia port was developed as a subsidiary port, in order to relieve growing pressure on the Kolkata port.

The Journey of Psychology as an independent discipline in India began with the establishment of the Department of Experimental Psychology, in 1916, in Calcutta University.

The picture given in the image is Rath Yatra. It is celebrated in Puri, Odisha.

The Bhagavad Gita is a poem written in the Sanskrit language. Its 700 verses are structured into several ancient Indian poetic meters, with the principal being the shloka (Anushtubh chanda). It has 18 chapters in total.

Bombay (Mumbai), India's largest city, has a metropolitan area population of more than 15 million.

His kingdom, long protected by the East India Company (EIC) under treaty, was annexed by the EIC on 11 February 1856, two days before the ninth anniversary of his coronation. The Nawab was exiled to Garden Reach in Metiabruz, then a suburb of Kolkata, where he lived out the rest of his life on a generous pension.