The road is renamed after Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, a nationalist politician and freedom-fighter of India.

[2] The road is arterial in maintaining north to central and vice versa connection in Kolkata.

A major portion of the Kolkata Metro Blue Line runs beneath this road.

This thoroughfare (earlier known as the 'Central Avenue') was built by the Calcutta Improvement Trust during the inter-war period.

Social dislocations during the street-building process found expression in contemporary urban conflicts.