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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 18 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SIBPUR , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India, in the See also:

HUGLI, or HOOGHLY

Hugli See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

Bengal, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

RIVER

river Hugli, opposite See also:

CALCUTTA

Calcutta. It is a suburb of See also:

HOWRAH

Howrah. It contains jute-See also:

mills, a See also:

FLOUR

flour-See also:

mill, rope-See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick-works and other See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial establishments; the royal botanical See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden; and the See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college with See also:

electrical and See also:

MINING

mining departments and a boarding-See also:

house. The college, of See also:

GOTHIC

gothic See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, was originally built for a missionary institution, as the See also:

Bishop's College, in 1824. It has recently been decided to remove it to See also:

RANCHI

Ranchi, in See also:

CHOTA (or CHUTIA) NAGPUR

Chota See also:

NAGPUR

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