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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A channel, about 240 km (150 mi) long, of the Ganges River in eastern India. The westernmost channel on the Ganges Delta, it connects Kolkata with the Bay of Bengal.
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The Hooghly is a tortuous stream of mud that can be navigated by large vessels only by daylight and with favoring conditions of tide, for its channel is seldom two days alike.
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888
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The water of the Hooghly, which is the source of municipal water for the densely populated areas on its banks, may in course of time become unfit for
unknown title 2009
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The water of the Hooghly, which is the source of municipal water for the densely populated areas on its banks, may in course of time become unfit for
unknown title 2009
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But the Singur and Nandigram upheavals helped the TMC come back strongly, winning 19 Lok Sabha seats in 2009 and later sweeping the panchayat and civic body polls in 2010, capturing major corporations such as Kolkata and cracking open the red bastions of Hooghly and North 24-Paraganas.
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But the Singur and Nandigram upheavals helped the TMC come back strongly, winning 19 Lok Sabha seats in 2009 and later sweeping the panchayat and civic body polls in 2010, capturing major corporations such as Kolkata and cracking open the red bastions of Hooghly and North 24-Paraganas.
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In this picture, dated June 8, 1944, Chittaprosad shows us a deserted village in Hooghly, an area in India's present-day state of West Bengal.
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A few miles downriver from the city, the Hooghly, an arm of the Ganges, opens out to become an inland sea of Amazonian proportions.
Oh! Kolkata! 2008
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A few miles downriver from the city, the Hooghly, an arm of the Ganges, opens out to become an inland sea of Amazonian proportions.
Oh! Kolkata! 2008
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Conolly notes that Sayyid Karamat Ali went on to serve the British Indian Government in Kabul (and Qandahar, see later), then became the mutawali or administrator of religious endowment or waqf property in Hooghly. back
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Our map shows the road sprouting into life near the Hooghly, the mighty river that carves through Kolkata.
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