Hugli

Hugli, formerly Hooghly-Chinsurah, Clock tower in Hugli, West Bengal, India [Credit: Piyal Kundu]city, central West Bengal state, northeastern India. The city lies just west of the Hugli (Hooghly) River and is a major road and rail connection. Rice milling and rubber-goods manufacture are the chief industries.

Hooghly (now Hugli) was founded by the Portuguese in 1537 following the decline of Satgaon, the mercantile capital of Lower Bengal. Mughal armies expelled the Portuguese from Hooghly in 1632. Hooghly was also the first English settlement (1651) in Lower Bengal; it was abandoned in 1690 for Calcutta (now Kolkata).

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West-bengal-district-map

bankura          barddhaman           barsat

cooch-behar       dakshin-dinajpur     darjiling

East-medinipur      haora        hugli

jalpaiguri            kochbihar     kolkata

maldah      murshidabad        north24-parganas

puruliya        south24-parganas        Suri

uttardinajpur        west-medinipur   nadia

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