The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement.

After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them.

[4] The first Indian attempt, after Gerasim Lebedev’s pioneering efforts, to stage plays in Kolkata was made at Narkeldanga.

In 1832, Prasanna Kumar Tagore built a makeshift auditorium in his house in Narkeldanga and staged some English plays.

[6][7][8] Narkeldanga Main Road (Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Sarani) passes through the locality.