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Example sentences for: calcutta

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Fearing the Europeans would start carving up Bengal, the nawab (Muslim prince) Siraj-ud-daula set up an attack on the British settlement in Calcutta on the hot day of 20 June, 1756.
Mahatma Gandhi immediately rushed from Calcutta to Delhi to defend Muslims against further slaughter.
The Statesman of Calcutta announces that "[t]ourist traffic in Jaisalmer, the Rajasthan desert district where nuclear weapons were tested this year, decreased alarmingly, apparently due to the alleged Western propaganda against the Pokhran nuclear tests."
He celebrated the fact by announcing that the capital would be moved from Calcutta to a whole new city to be built in Delhi.
His grandiose life in the viceregal residence in Calcutta or palace in Simla was worthy of the Mughal emperors.