Kalikata was a lesser known place.
Without a doubt, Calcutta( Bengali, Kalikata) is a city of contrasts.
George Herron's of 1690, Kalikata, situated between the two, is not depicted.
Prior to the arrival of the British, there were three villages at the site,
one named Kalikata.
In 1698, the East India Company bought three villages(Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur) from a local landlord family of Sabarna Roy Choudhury.
While both Sutanati and Gobindapur appear on old maps of 1687 and
George Herron's of 1690, Kalikata situated between the two is not depicted.
While both Sutanuti and Gobindapur appear on old maps like Thomas Bowrey's of 1687 and
George Herron's of 1690, Kalikata, situated between the two, is not depicted.
In 1698, Charles Eyre, son-in-law of the early colonial administrator, Job Charnock,
acquired the zemindari rights of Gobindapur, Kalikata and Sutanuti from the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family.
Moreover, before the coming of the English,
three local villages--Sutanati, Kalikata, and Gobindapore, which were later to become parts
of Calcutta--had been chosen as places to settle by Indian merchants who had migrated from the silted-up port of Satgaon,