Camac Street

Camac Street (renamed Abanindranath Thakur Sarani) is a street running in the central business district of Kolkata, India, from Park Street (Allen Park) to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road (Nizam Palace). The road was named after William Camac, a senior merchant in the days of Lord Cornwallis and Lord Wellesley. In the mid-1970s, the Park Street 'razzmatazz' spilled onto Camac Street which is, today, considered to be a high street of Kolkata with many commercial establishments and high-end shopping destinations, with many shopping malls, boutiques, restaurants and stand-alone stores.[1] It intersects Middleton Street and Shakespeare Sarani, two other important roads in the CBD. Several smaller roads like Middleton Row, Short Street, Victoria Terrace and Albert Road merge into Camac Street from the east or west.

Abanindranath Thakur Sarani
22 Camac Street, a high end shopping destination
Former name(s)Camac Street
Maintained byKolkata Municipal Corporation
LocationKolkata, India
Postal code700016, 700017, 700071
Nearest Kolkata Metro stationPark Street, Maidan, Rabindra Sadan
north endPark Street
south endAJC Bose Road

References
  1. "BSNL may take two weeks to be back online". 9 July 2009. Times of India. 9 July 2009. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2011.


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