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Why Culcutta trade centre was renamed as Fort William​

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Answered by ashauthiras
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Fort William, citadel of Calcutta (now Kolkata), named for King William III of England. The British East India Company's main Bengal trading station was moved from Hooghly (now Hugli) to Calcutta in 1690 after a war with the Mughals.

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Answered by sravya17
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The fort was named after King William III. In front of the Fort is the Maidan, the largest park in the city. An internal guard room became the Black Hole of Calcutta.

The purpose of establishing this college was to be to teach British officers of Indian Languages. ... Then a separate College, East Indian Company College was established in 1807 at England but the Fort William College was the center for teach different languages.

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