WRITER’S BUILDING – KOLKATA

The building has also played a fundamental part in shaping the history of the immediate region, as the village of Kalikata became British Calcutta and finally Kolkata. From its conception, the building was designed to become the focal administrative and business hub of the city emerging around it and was thus built close to existing infrastructure owned by the EIC. It was constructed on parts of the same parcel of land where the original Fort William, the EICs primary military stronghold in Bengal, stood until 1756. It also marked the centre of the ‘White Town’, populated primarily by English merchants, officers and EIC functionaries which was kept separate from the ‘Black Town’ populated primarily by the native landowners and businessmen.