calcutta named

[Rajesh Kochhar]

It is not a coincidence that Calcutta and Calicut sound so similar. The
original settlement in Calcutta came up at a village called Sutanati, but
the new town was named after Kolkata, which would remind Europe of Calicut
already known through Portuguese trade. Note that Kolkata and Kalighat were
two distinct localities in the pre-Calcutta days.




>Jogesh Panda wrote:
>>
>> >Steve Farmer <saf at SAFARMER.COM> wrote:
>> >....Vasco da Gama landed in Calcutta.
>>
>> Correction- Calicut [Calicutt, Kalikat on the Malabar coast], not
Calcutta.
>