Entally

Entally
Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
A tram rolls past Entally Market
Country	India
State	West Bengal
City	Kolkata
Ward	54,55,56
Parliamentary constituency	Kolkata Uttar
Assembly constituency	Entally
Government
• MLA	Swarnakamal Saha (TMC)
Elevation	36 ft (11 m)
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	700014
Area code(s)	+91 33

Entally (also spelt Entali) is a neighbourhood in central Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It has a police station and is an assembly constituency. Once it was considered close to the area which was home to the poor and the depressed castes.Mother Teresa started her activities in Entally.

Entally was one of the thirty-eight villages bought by the British East India Company in 1717 and reconstituted as Pancahannagram (fifty-five villages or mouzas). Entally, Pagladanga, Nimakposta, Kamardanga, Gobra and Tangra constituted Dihi Entally. Oriya palanquin-bearers, poor Christians, Muslims, Chinese and other depressed communities such as Dalits, lived in the area. Upper caste Hindus avoided living in the area because of the municipal slaughter house, and Chinese-owned tanneries and piggeries(near Tangra which is close to Entally). However upper-class European resided in the Entally post office (originally known as Intally Post Office) neighbourhood. Rich Hindu milk businessmen occupied an area near the Entally market and forbade low caste to come near their locality (Gopelane, Panbagan Lane).

H. E. A. Cotton describes Entally in the twentieth century as “an area extensively intersected with numerous roads and lanes. It contains a large number of European residences, some of them fine buildings in extensive grounds.” In those days, the Municipal Railway ran along the side of Lower Circular Road (renamed Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road) and the Lakes by way of Sealdah and conveyed several hundred tonnes of sweepings daily which were employed to raise a square mile of land, which had been bunded off from the lanes for the purpose. South of Entally was the Volunteer Rifle Range constructed in 1877.

In the nineteenth century many factories were set up in Entally because of the low cost of land. Many of them survive to this day.

Entally, Manicktala, Beliaghata, Ultadanga, Chitpur, Cossipore, parts of Beniapukur, Ballyganj, Watganj and Ekbalpur, and parts of Garden Reach and Tollygunj were added to Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 1888.