Stay Travel Agents Info Centres Festivals Calcutta, the British capital of the yester years is a city 300 years old and still holds the old British monuments to their splendour. It is a city of many colours that has give the nation writers, statesmen, sports personna and creative minds in possible fields. Near the eastern coast of India, in the state of West Bengal. The weather is very Indian, slightly on the humid side.
Summers are hot, the temperatures fluctuating between max.
30c - 35c and a min. The rainy season begins in the month of June and lasts upto Octobeber bringing in moderately severe rains. The temperature is also moderate. During Partition however, Calcutta was severely damaged as the economy collapsed due to the fall of the jute industry which passed into East Bengal. Then there were millions of refugees flowing in from the east.