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SERAMPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 661 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SERAMPUR , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Hugli See also:district of See also:Bengal, on the right See also:bank of the See also:river Hugli, opposite Barrack-See also:pore, on the See also:East See also:Indian railway, 12 M. from See also:Howrah. Pop. (1901) 44,451• A Danish factory was established here about the See also:middle of the 17th See also:century, and called by them Frederiksnagar. With the See also:rest of the Danish possessions in India, it was acquired by See also:purchase by the See also:English in 1845. Serampur was the See also:home of the Baptist See also:mission founded by See also:Carey. The mission See also:press has been transferred to See also:Calcutta, but a training See also:college is still maintained by the mission. There is a jute See also:mill, and See also:paper is manufactured.

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