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On 5 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gobindapur, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate north of Calcutta?
  • Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan

On August 1, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lal Dighi, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?

On 28 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Esplanade, Calcutta, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that the Esplanade in Calcutta, which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour?
  • Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan

On 24 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pathuriaghata, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that construction of ‘Tagore Castle’ in Pathuriaghata, a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?

On 21 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kumortuli, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that Kumortuli neighbourhood of Calcutta supplies images of Goddess Durga to Indian communities in about 90 countries?

On July 19, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sabarna Roy Choudhury, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that Sabarna Roy Choudhury sold to the British, for Rs. 1,300, the land rights of Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur, that ultimately merged to become Calcutta?

On 18 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kalikata, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that the unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta?
  • Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan

On 11 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Observatory Hill, Darjeeling, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that Observatory Hill, Darjeeling, the site of Darjeeling's oldest Buddhist monastery is now home to a Hindu temple?
  • Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan

On 9 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rock Garden, Darjeeling, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that Darjeeling's Rock Garden (pictured) was built to re-attract tourists following the damage to the industry caused by the actions of the Gorkha National Liberation Front?

On 6 July, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Darjeeling Ropeway, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that the Darjeeling Ropeway was stopped on 19 October 2003 after four tourists were killed in an accident?

On 17 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ghum, West Bengal, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that Ghum is the highest railway station in India at 2,225 m (7,407 ft)?
  • Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan

On May 30, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gour Govinda Ray, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that Gour Govinda Ray, Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism, attempted to compare Krishna with Christ?

On 23 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sutanuti, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August, 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta?
  • Expanded an article started by Dwaipayan

On 18 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Maidan (Kolkata), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata?
  • Expanded an article atarted by Pradiptaray

On 16 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Swarnakumari Devi, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ...that with the publication of Deepnirban in 1876, Swarnakumari Devi became the first woman novelist amongst the Bengali people?

On 12 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Monomohun Ghose, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Monomohun Ghose became the first Indian practicing barrister in 1867?

On 10 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Oriental Seminary, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that the Oriental Seminary, established in 1829, was the earliest privately run modern school in Kolkata?

On 9 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dwarkin, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Dwarkin developed the hand-held harmonium, a western instrument, to make it suitable for use with Indian music?

On 8 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ganendranath Tagore, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Ganendranath Tagore established the Jorasanko Natyasala, a private theatre in his own household, in Kolkata in 1865?

On 4 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jyotirindranath Tagore, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore?

On 25 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Banga Mahila Vidyalaya, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India?

On 23 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Annette Akroyd, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Annette Akroyd an orientalist, is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India?

On 21 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pankaj Gupta, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football, hockey and cricket?

On 19 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Panjika, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that a version of the traditional Bengali panjika, the Hindu astrological almanac, comes with an interactive CD-ROM?

On 16 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Beighton Cup, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?

On 11 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Leela Majumdar, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Leela Majumdar, author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali?
  • Expanded an article atarted by Hrishikes

On 3 April, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Indrajit Gupta, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that when Indrajit Gupta, a Communist, became India's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry 'which once policed the Commies'?
  • Expanded an article started by Bakasuprman

On 30 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kolkata West International City, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?

On 15 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hara Chandra Ghosh, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?

On 12 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Satyendranath Tagore, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Satyendranath Tagore, the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service, played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
  • Expanded an article started by Bakasuprman

On 10 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gnanendramohan Tagore, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862?
  • Nominated by KNM

On 8 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dwijendranath Tagore, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that in 1913, the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes?

On February 27, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fort William College, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Fort William College, set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages?
  • Expanded an article started by M.Imran

On 23 February, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Barakar River, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that bridges carrying India's Grand Trunk Road over the Barakar River were washed away in 1913 and 1946?

On 21 February, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?

On 17 February, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article British Indian Association, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?

On February 5, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gobindram Mitter, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter, a British deputy in Calcutta, earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?

On February 1, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ramgopal Ghosh, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• …that the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?

On 23 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mayurakshi river, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that the Mayurakshi River in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?

On January 3, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• …that the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracised for marrying the widow of Maharaj Tejendra?

On 27 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• …that when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened a secular girls’ school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?

On December 7, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nabakrishna Deb, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that after the Battle of Palashi in 1757, Nabakrishna Deb organised a Durga Puja where Lord Clive offered thanksgiving?

On 2 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dwarkanath Ganguly, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata, India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?

On 26 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chitpur, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ... that human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur, now home to Kolkata’s latest railway passenger terminal?

On November 13, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tagore family, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that the Tagore family, with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?

On November 13, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Motilal Sheel, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Motilal Sheel, a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
  • Expanded an article started by Antorjal

On 9 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kadambini Ganguly, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Kadambini Ganguly (pictured) was one of the first female graduates in the British Empire and the first female doctor (allopath) in South Asia?
  • Expanded an article started by LordGulliverofGalben.

On 2 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Peary Chand Mitra, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?

On 1 November, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rasik Krishna Mallick, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that Rasik Krishna Mallick, a student at Hindu College, Kolkata, a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges?

On 8 October, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Krishna Mohan Banerjee, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• ...that when Krishna Mohan Banerjee, a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata, in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare’s school?