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‎Bankipore Town

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=Bankipore Town=

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Head-quarters of the Division and
District of Patna, Bengal, situated in 25 37' N. and 85 8' E., on the
right bank of the Ganges. It forms part of the Patna municipality, and
is the western suburb of that city in which most of the Europeans reside.
Their houses and the police lines, judicial courts, and other public
buildings extend along the river bank. Bankipore possesses a spacious
maidan and a race-course. To the south of this lies the railway station,
which is 338 miles from Calcutta and is the junction for the Patna-Gaya
line and also for the Digha Ghat branch line connecting the East Indian
with the. Bengal and North-Western Railway. At once the most promi-
nent and the most curious building in Bankipore is the old Government
gold or granary, a brick building in the shape of a bee-hive, with two
winding staircases on the outside, which have been ascended on horse-
1 The ' Ostenders' were again expelled from Bankibazar in 1744 {Bengal Ftdlic
Consultations, October 14, 1744).

back ; it was erected by Warren Hastings shortly after the great famine
of 1769-70 as a storehouse for grain. This storehouse has never been
filled, though during the scarcity of 1874 a good deal of grain was tem-
porarily stored here. In times of famine, proposals to fill it are still
made by the native press ; but the loss from damp, rats, and insects
renders such a scheme of storing grain wasteful and impracticable. The
jail, which is situated near the railway station, has accommodation for
453 prisoners, who are chiefly employed in the preparation of mustard
oil, carpets, and road-metal. The Bihar National college, founded in
1883, teaches up to the B.A. standard, and the Bankipore female high
school, founded in 1867, teaches up to the Entrance standard of the
Calcutta University.

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Pdewan: /* Bankipore Town */

Pdewan: Created page with " {| class="wikitable" |- |colspan="0"| This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLA..."

Pdewan: Created page with " {| class="wikitable" |- |colspan="0"|
This article has been extracted from
THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.
OXFORD, AT THE CLA..."