Bankibazar

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Bankibazar

Ancient village in the District of the Twenty-four Par- ganas, Bengal, on the Hooghly river near the modern Palta, 3 miles above Barrackpore. The name of this village has disappeared from the map, and its site can be identified only from old charts. It formed the principal settlement in India of the ill-fated Ostend Company which was chartered by the Emperor of Austria in 1722. This settlement was regarded with great jealousy by the English, French, and Dutch ; and the result was that, when the Court of Vienna was anxious to obtain the European guarantee for the Pragmatic Sanction in 1727, the Company's charter was suspended. In 1733 the Muhammadan general (fanjdar) at Hooghly, at the instigation of the Dutch and English, besieged Bankibazar ; and the small garrison, after a despairing resistance against overwhelming numbers, abandoned the place and set sail for Europe.