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| Ballygunge Avenue | |
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| Former name(s) | Main Sewer Road |
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| Maintained by | Kolkata Municipal Corporation |
| Location | Kolkata, India |
| Nearest Kolkata Metro station | Kalighat and Hemanta Mukherjee |
| West end | Chetla |
| East end | Gariahat, with an extension to Ruby Hospital |
Rashbehari Avenue (known as Main Sewer Road or Ballygunge Avenue till 1929)[1] is one of the most prestigious and important east–west avenues of Kolkata, India. A major portion of this road is often commonly referred to as Gariahat, the prime shopping and aristocratic residential neighbourhood of south Kolkata. Rashbehari Avenue falls in the posh residential neighbourhood of Ballygunge. The road is named after Sir Rash Behari Ghosh who was an Indian politician, lawyer, social worker and philanthropist.[2]
- ^ Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti. streets in motion: the making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009109208.
- ^ See Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009109208