Uluberia

Uluberia is a city and municipality of Howrah district in West Bengal, India, the headquarters of the Uluberia subdivision and part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. The English Wikipedia article says that in 1687 it was a scanty hamlet that sheltered the British Army retreating after its defeat by Shaista Khan near Hooghly, and that Robert Clive commissioned Fort Mornington at Gadiara, where the Hooghly, Damodar and Rupnarayan meet, completed around the late 1760s. The municipality was formed on 22 September 1982 with 28 wards and now has 32 wards and an area of 34.10 square kilometres. The city is given a population of 222,240, the average elevation is about 1 metre, and refugees from East Pakistan settled near it after 1947.