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Janbazar
Janbazar ((ベンガル語:জানবাজার)) is a neighbourhood in central Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal. The two century-old house of Rani Rashmoni, the central attraction in Janbazar, is still used by descendants in the family.
==History==
Janbazar was one of the thirty-one police stations in the earliest list of police stations in Kolkata, prepared in 1785. However, it vanished after a reorganisation.〔Nair, P. Thankappan, ''The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol. I, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, p. 15, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-563696-3.〕
After their victory in the Battle of Plassey, the English decided to build new Fort William, in 1758. The native population shifted from Gobindapur mostly to Sutanuti. The European inhabitants of Kalikata gradually forsook the narrow limits of the old palisades and moved to around the Maidan.〔Cotton, H.E.A., ''Calcutta Old and New'', 1909/1980, p. 72, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.〕 Civilians were not allowed to live within the new fort. Gradually the areas to the south of the Great Tank and to the east along Chowringhee Road were emerging as preferred haunts for the Englishmen. Thus, while Sutanuti emerged as the Black Town, the Esplanade and Chowringhee emerged as the White Town.〔Lahiri Choudhury, Dhriti Kanta, ''Trends in Calcutta Architecture'', in ''Calcutta, the Living City'', Vol I, pp.159-160〕
Initially, the area between Jan Bazar Road (as it was then known) and Park Street attracted some 40 Europeans to build their residences there.〔Cotton, H.E.A., p 106〕 However, the areas around Writers' building, Baitakkhana (Boubazar), Dharmatala and Janbazar went down in estimation and were gradually taken over by 'the rest', which included half-castes, Portuguese, Armenians and so on, 'to become grey areas between Black and White Towns of old Kolkata'.〔
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