Chandannagar

Chandannagar is a municipal corporation in the state of West Bengal, India.Sailendra Nath Sen, Chandernagore: From Boundage to Freedom, 1900-1955 (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2012), p. 291 It was formerly spelled Chandranagore. It  was a former French colony along with present Puducherry, Union territory. It is a part of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. Chandannagar is located on the banks of the Hooghly River. The total area of the city is .S. K. Maity; B. K. Bhattacharyay; B. Bhattacharyya, 'A Case Study on Municipal Solid Waste Management in Chandan Nagar City',  International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management, Vol. 1, Iss. 3 (November 2012), p. 1 The total population of the city is 166,867 according to the 2011 Census of India. Chandannagar was a French territory until India gained its  independence from France in 1949.Kunal Chakrabarti; Shubhra Chakrabarti, Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013), p. 122 In 1954 it came under the jurisdiction of West Bengal.

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Category:Cities in West Bengal