24 Parganas Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
former district of West Bengal, India
About 24 Parganas
24 Parganas is on the Indian half of the Ganges Delta, with a maze of distributaries in the Sundarbans. Although the Hooghly River is the main river, other rivers in the region include the Ichhamati, Jamuna and Bidyadhari. The name 24 Parganas is derived from the number ofparganas(divisions) contained in the zamindari of Calcutta which was ceded to the East India Company by Mir Jafar in 1757.
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