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In 1939 a commerce department was opened and attained the position of the biggest college in asia. The medical college and hospital building also known as the mch building is the oldest building in medical college kolkata. A brief history of kolkata literature rabindranath tagorecherishsantosh wikicommons home to some of the most celebrated writers in modern indian literature, as well as a number of influential publishing houses, kolkata has gained a reputation as the countrys unofficial literary capital in recent decades. We deal indological books, zoological, botanical, anthropological and geological survey of india and rare books of indian art, history and archaeology. The national library of india formerly the imperial library in calcutta was founded in 1903. Each and every college has positive and negative things but in our eyes it was always positive excluding the college cafeteria.
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