Syamnagar

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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.

Syamnagar

Village in the Barrackpore subdivision of the District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, situated in 22° 50' N. and 88° 24' E., on the east bank of the Hooghly river, with a station on the Eastern Bengal State Railway, 19 miles north of Calcutta. Population (1901), 102. A short distance east of the station are the ruins of an old fort surrounded by a moat, 4 miles in circumference, built in the eighteenth century by a Raja of Burdwan as a refuge from the Marathas. The fort now belongs to the Tagore family of Calcutta, and its ramparts are studded with thick date plantations. A Sanskrit college and a charitable dispensary are maintained by Maharaja Sir Jotindra Mohan Tagore. Syamnagar lies within the Garulia municipality.