Hastings, Kolkata

Hastings
Hastings
Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
	Mikoyan MiG-27 TS-582 preserved in Hastings
	Hastings Location in Kolkata
	Coordinates: 22°32′49″N 88°19′39″E / 22.546944°N 88.327472°E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
City	Kolkata
District	Kolkata
Metro Station	Victoria(under construction)
Founded by	British East India Company
Named for	Warren Hastings
Municipal Corporation	Kolkata Municipal Corporation
KMC wards	63, 75
Population
• Total	For population see linked KMC ward page
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	700021, 700022
Area code	+91 33
Lok Sabha constituency	Kolkata Dakshin
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Kolkata Port

Hastings is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

History

Hastings is an area in Central Kolkata between the Maidan and the Hooghly River. The area named after Warren Hastings, who was the first Governor-General of Bengal then the whole of India from 1772 to 1785.

The Hastings area was initially a Muslim burial ground, then became ‘Coolie Bazar’ for workmen who built Fort William and finally turned into a township for the Ordnance and Commissariat department people.^[1]

This was originally the military area of the city and several landmarks remain including Fort William, the Lascar War Memorial and the Ordnance Club, as well as the Race Course. In 1855, a Church Hastings Chapel, Kolkata was built there for the officers of the East India Company.^[2]

In 1888, one of the 25 newly organized police section houses was located in Hastings.^[1]

This is also where one of the city’s major thoroughfares feeds onto Vidyasagar Setu, the impressive suspension bridge crossing the Hooghly River which was completed in 1992.

Geography

Police district

Hastings police station is part of the South division of Kolkata Police. It is located at 5, Middle Road, Kolkata-700022.^[3]

Tollygunge Womens police station has jurisdiction over all the police districts in the South Division, i.e. Park Street, Shakespeare Sarani, Alipore, Hastings, Maidan, Bhowanipore, Kalighat, Tollygunge, Charu Market, New Alipur and Chetla.^[3]

Transport

Road

Train

Prinsep Ghat railway station and Eden Gardens railway station on Kolkata Circular Railway line are the nearest railway stations.

References

^ ^a ^b Nair, P. Thankappan, The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, p. 18, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.
^ Dutta, Krishna (2003). Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History. Signal Books. ISBN 978-1-902669-59-5.
^ ^a ^b "Kolkata Police". South Division – Hastings police station. KP. Retrieved 26 March 2018.