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Hugli

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Hu·gli or Hoogh·ly  (hgl)
A channel, about 257 km (160 mi) long, of the Ganges River in eastern India. The westernmost channel on the Ganges Delta, it connects Calcutta with the Bay of Bengal.


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Of these, two were particularly important--Surat on the western coast, and Hugli on the eastern coast of India.
I was really shocked and really saddened when I first heard that a young girl had frozen to death on a First Nation and that a second girl was missing," Hugli explained.
Dutta begins her book with an historical overview of how Calcutta, founded on the banks of the Hugli River by the East India Company in 1690, grew to become the capital of colonial India and the second city of the British Empire.
 
 
 
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