Hastings, Kolkata

Hastings
Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Coordinates: 22°33′00″N 88°20′08″E / 22.549944°N 88.335472°E / 22.549944; 88.335472Coordinates: 22°33′00″N 88°20′08″E / 22.549944°N 88.335472°E / 22.549944; 88.335472
Country  India
State West Bengal
City Kolkata
District Kolkata
Municipal Corporation Kolkata Municipal Corporation
KMC ward 75
Population
 • Total For population see linked KMC ward page
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
Area code(s) +91 33
Lok Sabha constituency Kolkata Dakshin
Vidhan Sabha constituency Kolkata Port

Hastings is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

History

The Hastings area was initially a Muslim burial ground, then ‘Coolie Bazar’ for workmen who built Fort William, and finally a township for the Ordnance and Commissariat department people.[1]

In 1888, one of the 25 newly organized police section houses was located in Hastings.[1]

Geography

Police district

Hastings police station is part of the South division of Kolkata Police. Located at 5, Middle Road, Kolkata-700022, it has jurisdiction over the police district which is bordered on the north from the north-east corner of the junction of Clyde Row and Napier Road, thence along the north-eastern limit of Clyde Row up to the north-west corner of the junction of Commissariat Road and Clyde Row, thence along the northern limit of Commissariat Road up to the north-west corner of the junction of Commissariat Road and St. George’s Gate Road, then crossing St. George’s Road up to the north-east corner of the junction of Commissariat Road and St. George’s Road, thence southward along the eastern limit of the St. George’s Road up to the north-east corner of the junction of the St. George’s Gate Road and Kidderpore Road, thence along the northern limit of Kidderpore Road up to the north-east corner of the junction of Kidderpore Road, and Lovers Lane, thence crossing Kidderpore Road southward by a shortest line to the south-east corner of the junction of Lovers Lane and Kidderpore Road, thence by the eastern limit of Lovers Lane up to the north-east corner of the junction of Lovers Lane, Casurina Avenue and Queens Way, thence eastward along the northern limit of Queens Way up to the north-west corner of the junction of the Queens Way and Cathedral Road, thence crossing Cathedral Road eastward along the northern limit of Queens Way up to the north-west corner of the junction of Queens Way and Jawaharlal Nehru Road (old Chowringhee Road); on the east from the north-west corner of the junction of Queens Way and Jawaharlal Nehru Road (old Chowringhee Road), thence southward along the western limit of Jawaharlal Nehru Road, up to the north-west corner of the junction of Jawaharlal Nehru Road and AJC Bose Road, thence crossing AJC Bose Road southward up to the south-west corner junction of Jawaharlal Nehru Road and AJC Bose Road; on the south from the south-west corner junction of Jawaharlal Nehru Road and AJC Bose Road, then westward along the southern limit of AJC Bose Road up to the south-east corner of the junction of AJC Bose Road and D L Khan Road, thence following the boundaries described in the schedule appended to notification no. 4078 P. D. dated 15 October 1913, thence along the southern limits of AJC Bose Road from the south-west corner of D L Khan Road and AJC Bose Road to the Zeerut Bridge Approach, thence southward along the western limits of the Zeerut Bridge Approach up to the north-west point of Zeerut Bridge, thence along the northern limit of the Tolly’s Nullah up to the south-east corner of the Hastings Bridge (bridge excluded); and on the west from the south-east corner of the Hastings Bridge (bridge excluded) thence northward along the eastern limit of Napier Road (road excluded) up to the Clyde Row, thence crossing the Clyde Row up to the north-east corner of the junction of Clyde Row and Napier Road.[2]

Tollygunge Womens police station has jurisdiction over all the police districts in the South Division, i.e. Park Street, Shakespeare Sarani, Alipore, Hastings, Maidan, Bhowanipore, Kalighat, Tollygunge, Charu Market, New Alipur and Chetla.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Nair, P. Thankappan, The Growth and Development of Old Calcutta, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol. I, p. 18, Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford University Press, 1995 edition.
  2. 1 2 "Kolkata Police". South Division – Hastings police station. KP. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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