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| First Name |
Job
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| Last Name |
Charnock
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| Birthplace |
London, England
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| Died |
10th January, 1692
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| Place of Death |
Calcutta, Mughal Empire
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation Text |
Colonial administrator
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| Occupation |
Business
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Job Charnock (; c.–1692/1693) was an English administrator with the East India Company. He is commonly regarded as the founder of the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata); however, this view is challenged, and in 2003 the Calcutta High Court declared that he ought not to be regarded as the founder. There may have been inhabitants in the area since the first century CE. The High Court was right in claiming that villages that constituted colonial Calcutta were not established by Charnock or the British Raj itself, but Charnock’s ambition-driven doggedness toward setting up a East Indian Company frontier along the Eastern border of India that he could control on his own terms played a huge role in the creation of present day city of Calcutta.
