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Keywords: General Post Office (GPO), Calcutta (c. 1880s).jpg en Photo taken by an unknown photographer in the 1880s in Calcutta part of the Bellew Collection of Architectural Views with a view looking across the tank reservoir in Dalhousie Square towards the General Post Office on the north-west corner As the capital of the British in India in the 19th century Calcutta was endowed with many buildings projecting appropriate grandeur Imposing edifices such as the post office constructed in a neo-classical style and gleaming white with 'chunam' a form of polished stucco made of burnt seashells helped Calcutta gain the epithet 'City of Palaces' The city's Tank Square was renamed Dalhousie Square after Lord Dalhousie Governor-General 1848-56 The new General Post Office was on the site of the New Custom House and the Old Fort It was built in 1868 by Walter L B Granville 1819-74 who acted as consulting architect to the government of India from 1863 to 1868 circa 1880 s http //www oldindianphotos in/2009/09/general-post-office-gpo-calcutta-1885 html author other versions Custom license marker 2014 10 28 PD-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Kolkata in the 1880s General Post Office Kolkata
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