What is Chandannagar?
[[File:Dupleix Palace at Chandannagar, Hooghly.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Dupleix Palace at Chandannagar}}]] '''Chandannagar''' is a [[municipal corporation]] in the [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]], [[India]].<ref name=Sen291>Sailendra Nath Sen, ''Chandernagore: From Boundage to Freedom, 1900-1955'' (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2012), p. 291</ref> It was formerly [[Orthography|spelled]] '''Chandranagore'''.<ref name=Sen291/> It was a former [[List of French possessions and colonies|French colony]] along with present [[Puducherry]], [[Union territory]]. It is a part of the [[Kolkata Metropolitan Area]]. Chandannagar is located on the [[wikt:bank|bank]]s of the [[Hooghly River]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chandernagoremunicipalcorporation.in/Content.aspx?ID=History |title=History of Chandannagar |publisher=Chandernagore Municipal Corporation |access-date=January 24, 2017 |archive-date=August 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826144613/http://chandernagoremunicipalcorporation.in/Content.aspx?ID=History |url-status=dead }}</ref> The total area of the city is {{convert|20|km2}}.<ref>S. K. Maity; B. K. Bhattacharyay; B. Bhattacharyya, 'A Case Study on Municipal Solid Waste Management in Chandan Nagar City', '' International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management'', Vol. 1, Iss. 3 (November 2012), p. 1</ref> The total [[population]] of the city is 166,867 according to the [[2011 Census of India]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.census2011.co.in/census/city/239-chandannagar.html |title=Chandannagar City Census 2011 data |website=Population Census |publisher=Census Organization of India |access-date=January 24, 2017}}</ref> Chandannagar was a French territory until India gained its [[independence]] from [[France]] in 1949.<ref name=Chakrabarti122>Kunal Chakrabarti; Shubhra Chakrabarti, ''Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis'' (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013), p. 122</ref> In 1954 it came under the [[jurisdiction]] of West Ben