Bankipore
Bankipore | |
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Neighbourhood | |
UTC+5:30 (IST) | |
PIN | 800004 |
Vehicle registration | BR-01 |
Planning agency | Patna Metropolitan Area Authority |
Civic agency | Patna Municipal Corporation |
Bankipur is a neighbourhood and residential area in
History
Until the early twentieth century, Bankipore (or Bankipur, or Banki Bazaar) was the administrative centre of the
The site is almost certainly the location of the ancient Magadhan and
In 1774 the EIC ceded Banki Bazaar to the Austrian Ostend Company.[citation needed]
Among the principal remains of the
One of the earliest educational institutions of the erstwhile Bengal Presidency, Rammohun Roy Seminary, a High English School, was set up at Bankipur in 1892 under the charge of Satis Chandra Chakravarti, a worker of the Bankipur Ashram of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.[1]
In 1912, Indian National Congress held its 27th session at Bankipore under the Presidency of
The name of this place goes to Islamic invader
In fiction
The author
References
- ^ Sastri, Sivanath (1993) [1911-12]. History of the Brahmo Samaj. Kolkata: Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. p. 327.
- ^ "Indian National Congress Session and its President". AICC, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
- ^ "A Passage to India"E.M.Forster, Edited by Oliver Stallybrass 1978, Penguin Books Limited, Reprinted in Penguin Modern Classics 1982, p.338