Hastings, Kolkata

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

For other uses with the same name, see Hastings (disambiguation).

Hastings
Neighbourhood in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Replica of a Fighter Aircraft in Hastings
Hastings
Location in Kolkata
Coordinates: 22.546944°N 88.327472°E / 22.546944; 88.327472
Country India
StateWest Bengal
CityKolkata
DistrictKolkata
Metro StationVictoria(under construction)
Municipal CorporationKolkata Municipal Corporation
KMC wards63, 75
Population
 • TotalFor population see linked KMC ward page
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
700021, 700022
Area code(s)+91 33
Lok Sabha constituencyKolkata Dakshin
Vidhan Sabha constituencyKolkata Port

History
Sainik Park War Tank in Hastings

Hastings is an area in Central Kolkata between the Maidan and the Hooghly River. The area named after Warren Hastings, who was the first Governor-General of Bengal then the whole of India from 1772 to 1785.

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

This was originally the military area of the city and several landmarks remain including Fort William, the Lascar War Memorial and the Ordnance Club, as well as the Race Course.

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

This is also where one of the city’s major thoroughfares feeds onto Vidyasagar Setu, the impressive suspension bridge crossing the Hooghly River which was completed in 1992.

Geography

Police district

Hastings police station is part of the South division of Kolkata Police. It is located at 5, Middle Road, Kolkata-700022.[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]

Transport

Road
Clyde Road, Hastings
Alipore Road and AJC Bose Road crossing, Hastings

Train

Prinsep Ghat railway station and Eden Gardens railway station on Kolkata Circular Railway line are the nearest railway stations.

gollark: Real payment systems partly get around this by making the chip on the card itself do some cryptography, so it can't make payments without the card being physically there still, but I don't think there's actually anything other than trust, the law, and "security" through obscurity stopping a payment thing from deducting more money than it should?
gollark: Obviously that's not very good.
gollark: .
gollark: Example issue with the central version: you scan your card on a payment terminal to pay one currency unit. But it reads your card's data off, and can now just take as much money as it wants at any time
gollark: And that would... probably be worse than the central version.

References
  1. 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. "Kolkata Police". South Division – Hastings police station. KP. Retrieved 26 March 2018.


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