Sinthee
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Sinthee or Sinthi is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.{{cite web|title=Kolkata Statistics|url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/KolkataStatistics.jsp|publisher=Kolkata Municipal Corporation|access-date=12 February 2012}}
History
The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. Of these 5 lay across the Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Sinthee was one of them. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the Maratha Ditch.{{cite web| url = http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/19/1916_PART_A_DCHB_KOLKATA.pdf |title = District Census Handbook Kolkata, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A |work = Pages 6-10: The History | publisher= Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal| access-date = 20 February 2018}}Cotton, H.E.A., Calcutta Old and New, first published 1909/reprint 1980, pages 103-4 and 221, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.Nair, P.Thankappan, The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, pp. 14-15, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.
Geography
=Location=
Sinthee is surrounded by South Dum Dum and Dum Dum in the east, Satpukur and Dum Dum Road in the south, Baranagar in the north, Cossipore & Barrackpore Trunk Road in the west.
=Police district=
Sinthee police station is part of the North and North Suburban division of Kolkata Police. Located at 145/1 South Sinthi Road, Kolkata-700050, it has jurisdiction over Sinthee neighbourhood/ Ward No. 2 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.{{cite web| url = http://www.kolkatapolice.gov.in/division.asp?ID=3&Division=X |title = Kolkata Police |work = North and North Suburban Division | publisher= KP| access-date = 5 March 2018}}Kolkata: Detail Maps of 141 Wards with Street Directory, Fourth Impression 2003, Map No. 1, D.P.publication and Sales Concern, 66 College Street, Kolkata - 700 073.
Amherst Street Women police station covers all police districts under the jurisdiction of the North and North Suburban division i.e. Amherst Street, Jorabagan, Shyampukur, Cossipore, Chitpur, Sinthi, Burtolla and Tala.
=Landmarks=
- Rabindra Bharati University
- B. T. Road Government Sponsored H. S. School
- Birla Institute of Technology
- Department of Economics, University of Calcutta
Transport
=Road=
B.T. Road passes along the west boundary of Sinthee. Many buses ply through 'Sinthee More' on B.T. Road. The only bus (Private bus) which enters into Sinthee is 30A (Sinthee Bediapara - Esplanade (Dharmatala), which runs along KC Ghosh Road (Ramakrishna Ghosh Road).Google maps 30 A Bus Stand near Bediapara.
=Train=
Dum Dum Junction is the nearest railway station of Sinthee. Dum Dum Metro Station is the neighborhood subway station.
External links
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