Multiple choice general knowledge history

Who was the founder of the city?

  1. Job Charnock

  2. Siraj-Ud-Daulah

  3. Rickard Wellesley

  4. Surendranath Banerjee
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Explanation

Job Charnock, an agent of the East India Company, is traditionally credited as the founder of Calcutta (now Kolkata). He settled there in 1690, though modern scholarship debates this singular attribution.

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