Richard Wellesley, Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William among 1797 and 1805, was largely in charge of the development of the city as well as public architecture. 50 Throughout the later 18th and 19th century, the metropolis was a heart of the East India Company’s opium trade. 51 A new census in year 1837 records the inhabitants of the city proper as 229, 700, of which often the British inhabitants constructed only several, 138. 52 The same source states another 177, 000 resided within the and surrounding suburbs and neighbouring communities, making......

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