Ballygunge, Kolkata — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Ballygunge?

Art takes up most of the list. The Centre of International Modern Art, the Jamini Roy Museum and the Azad Memorabilia Museum all sit inside the locality, three collections registered to the same address. Industry has its own hall.

The Birla Industrial & Technological Museum completes the set, and between the four a day in Ballygunge can be spent without leaving the neighbourhood.

What is the history of Ballygunge?

Money, not dates, is what the record notes. Ballygunge is set down as one of the more affluent neighbourhoods of Kolkata, and that single line is close to all the sources offer, with no founding year, no charter and no dated moment at which the locality took its shape. West Bengal supplies the frame.

What the record does name are the museums, and those four collections stand in for a written history the locality has not been given.

Where is Ballygunge?

The locality falls inside Kolkata district, a couple of kilometres from Tangra and further again from the streets around Esplanade.