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French flavour

Only a few hours’ drive from the city, the erstwhile French colony of Chandannagar is a great weekend destination. At a time when the British established their hold over India and stamped the country with colonial architecture, a small city 30 km north of Kolkata held on to its identity. Chandannagar, barely an hour’s drive from Kolkata, had been a French colony since 1673. And it continued to remain so till February 2, 1951 when the French government ceded the city to India. Earlier called Farasdanga (“Farasi” in Bengali means “French” and “danga” means “land”), Chandannagar retains its distinct French flavour to this day.

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