South Dum Dum

South Dum Dum is a city and municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area, in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India, within the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. In 1870 the Dum Dum area was divided into South Dum Dum and North Dum Dum, and South Dum Dum Municipality was established on 3 July 1870. The name recalls the Dum Dum Arsenal, a British Royal Artillery facility of the 19th century. At the 2011 census of India it had 403,316 people, 202,214 of them male and 201,102 female. The article also describes Clive House on Rastraguru Avenue in Nagerbazar, an old brick and cement building that Robert Clive renovated and used as a country house around 1757 to 1760, and which has been in the domain of the Archaeological Survey of India since 2004.