Kamarhati

Kamarhati is a city and municipality of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India, within the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. It was once part of the North Suburban Municipality, was renamed Baranagar Municipality in 1881 to 1882, and became a municipality of its own in 1899. In the British period it was a place of bungalows and gardens used by wealthy Kolkata families, and after the partition of Bengal in 1947 refugees from East Pakistan settled here in large numbers, so that by 1949 there were 65 refugee colonies in the Dum Dum and Panihati zone. The 2011 census counted 330,211 residents, and the municipal city covered 10.96 square kilometres. Kamarhatty Company Limited, a composite jute mill founded in 1877 by Jardine Henderson, is called one of the oldest functioning mills of its kind in the world.