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Barrackpore
City in West Bengal, India

Barrackpore

Barrackpore, also spelled as Barrackpur, is a city and a municipality of Kolkata in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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It is the headquarters of the Barrackpore subdivision. The city is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Get in

Getting to Barrackpore

  1. 01
    Barrackpore SDAH

    You can reach Barrackpore from Kolkata through Barrackpore Trunk Road (BT Road).

  2. 02
    Babaji Ghat

    Ferry services to Dui Paisar Ghat and Sheoraphuli.

  3. 03
    Dhobi Ghat

    Ferry services to Jugol Acharya Ghat at Serampore.

  4. 04
    Du Paisar Ghat

    Ferry services to Sheoraphuli.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Gandhi Ghat
  2. 02
    Gandhi Memorial Museum
  3. 03
    Government House

    The former riverside suburban residence of the Governor-General of India and later the Viceroy of India.

  4. 04
    Lady Canning's Grave

    Wife of viceroy Lord Canning, Charlotte Canning was a painter and a naturalist.

  5. 05
    Mangal Pandey's
  6. 06
    Netaji Open University

    Originally a residence of Rastraguru Surendranath Banerjee, who used to live here for a considerable period of time.

Do

Things to do

Jawahar Kunj.

  1. 01
    Mangal Pandey Park
  2. 02
    Sukanta Sadan
How locals move

Getting around Barrackpore the local way

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