Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Kolkata

About Kolkata — A Brief History

Kolkata known as Calcutta until 2001 sits on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river in West Bengal, and was the capital of British India from 1772 until 1911. The city was founded in 1690 by the East India Company merchant Job Charnock, who chose the site of three small villages Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur to build a fortified trading post. Fort William grew quickly into the second city of the British Empire, and the buildings of the Raj era the Victoria Memorial, the General Post Office, the Writers' Building, the High Court and St Paul's Cathedral still anchor central Kolkata's skyline.

Kolkata was the heart of the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth century, when reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda reshaped Indian thought, education and religion. Tagore became the first non-European Nobel laureate in literature in 1913, and the city's Jorasanko Thakur Bari is now a museum. The famous trams, the Coffee House on College Street and the bookstalls of College Street give the city a literary charm.

Today Kolkata is famous across the world for its Durga Puja, when hundreds of artistic pandals fill the streets in late September or early October, and which UNESCO inscribed in 2021 as Intangible Cultural Heritage. The local economy mixes finance, jute, leather, IT around Sector V Salt Lake, and a strong creative-industries belt. Shree Mahavir Courier's Kolkata branches handle a heavy daily flow of office documents, jute and leather-trade papers, publishing and arts-export dispatch and family parcels for the city and the smaller settlements like Salt Lake, New Town, Behala and Garia every working day.