There are dozens of ghats along the river with architecturally significant structures, evidence of the rich heritage of colonial Calcutta.
The ‘Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan’ mentions a civil servant called Ramgati Bandyopadhyay who worked with Herschel in Hooghly for the collection of fingerprints, but Herschel does
Chandernagore The Sacred Heart Church at Chandernagore (l’Eglise du Sacré Cour) is a grand edifice situated just beyond the Strand by the river Hugli. The
Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (1855-1947) was a real-life police officer who published First Person accounts of his exploits.
