Bankipore Town

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Bdnkipur

Head-quarters of the Division and District of Patna, Bengal, situated in 25 37' N. and 85 8' E., on the right bank of the Ganges. It forms part of the Patna municipality, and is the western suburb of that city in which most of the Europeans reside. Their houses and the police lines, judicial courts, and other public buildings extend along the river bank. Bankipore possesses a spacious maidan and a race-course. To the south of this lies the railway station, which is 338 miles from Calcutta and is the junction for the Patna-Gaya line and also for the Digha Ghat branch line connecting the East Indian with the. Bengal and North-Western Railway. At once the most promi- nent and the most curious building in Bankipore is the old Government gold or granary, a brick building in the shape of a bee-hive, with two winding staircases on the outside, which have been ascended on horse- 1 The ' Ostenders' were again expelled from Bankibazar in 1744 {Bengal Ftdlic Consultations, October 14, 1744).

back ; it was erected by Warren Hastings shortly after the great famine of 1769-70 as a storehouse for grain. This storehouse has never been filled, though during the scarcity of 1874 a good deal of grain was tem- porarily stored here. In times of famine, proposals to fill it are still made by the native press ; but the loss from damp, rats, and insects renders such a scheme of storing grain wasteful and impracticable. The jail, which is situated near the railway station, has accommodation for 453 prisoners, who are chiefly employed in the preparation of mustard oil, carpets, and road-metal. The Bihar National college, founded in 1883, teaches up to the B.A. standard, and the Bankipore female high school, founded in 1867, teaches up to the Entrance standard of the Calcutta University.