Kidderpore
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Kidderpore খিদিরপুর Khidirpur |
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 Kidderpore
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| Coordinates: 22°32′34″N 88°19′09″E / 22.5427°N 88.3192°ECoordinates: 22°32′34″N 88°19′09″E / 22.5427°N 88.3192°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| City | Kolkata |
| Elevation | 9 m (30 ft) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
Khidirpur or Kidderpore is a neighborhood of metropolitan Kolkata (Calcutta). Located in the central-west part of the city, it is bounded by the Alipore in the east, Mominpur in the south, Hastings, in the north, Garden Reach and Metiabruz in the south-west and the Hooghly River in the west.
The gateway of Kidderpore is at the crossing of Diamond Harbour Road and Gangadhar Banerjee Lane. At that place a roadside restaurant dating from the British era remains, named "Panchubabu's Shop" or "Panchubabur Dokan", one of the landmarks of Kidderpore. The area is also home to quite a few dargahs of Sufi saints like Syed Baba and Shah Warsi Baba, to name a few.
A number of soldiers killed during the 2nd World War were buried at the Solana Muslim burial ground.
Even in the field of Indian literature, this part of Kolkata produced three jewel poets. They were Rongolal Bandhopadhyay, Hemchandra Bandopadhyay and Michael Madhushudan Dutta.
One of the oldest parts of the city, Kidderpore has many legends associated with respect to the stoical origin of it's name. It is said that some British could not converse in Bengali. Whenever they passed by, their asking in broken Hindi for the directions to the port where their ships used to dock sounded somewhat like 'kidder-port'. More plausibly, the name is a corruption of Khidrpur or Khizarpur, Khizr/Khidr being the guardian saint of the seas to the fishing communities of Bengal. Another theory points out that the port probably got its name from Lord Kyde, a 19th-century engineer who designed and supervised the building of the lock gate that connects the nearby port to the Hoogly River.
Kidderpore is located at 22°32′N 88°19′E / 22.53°N 88.32°E. It has an average elevation of 9 m (30 ft).
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