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Chandernagore

American  
[chuhn-der-nuh-gawr, -gohr] / ˌtʃʌn dər nəˈgɔr, -ˈgoʊr /
Also Chandannagar

noun

  1. a port in S West Bengal, in E India, on the Hugli River: a former French dependency.


Chandernagore British  
/ ˌtʃʌndənəˈɡɔː /

noun

  1. a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)

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Middle-class people didn’t talk like that in pastoral Chandernagore, a small town in West Bengal, about 30 miles from Kolkata.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

The team halted at a lonely house surrounded by a high wall, once the residence of a zamindar, now owned by Coja Solomon of Cossimbazar, and leased to a fellow Armenian of Chandernagore.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert

Chandernagore has played an important part in the European history of Bengal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

When I returned home from the outset of my second voyage to England, my brother Jyotirindra and sister-in-law were living in a river-side villa at Chandernagore, and there I went to stay with them.

From My Reminiscences by Hesh, Sasi Kumar

When the party had landed, Mrs. Merriman sent her jamadar up to the house to ask for the loan of a boat, or for shelter while one was being obtained from Chandernagore.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert