[1] When Ramcharan Deb was murdered by Maratha marauders in the jungles of Midnapore, his widow came back to their house at Gobindapur with her three sons and five daughters.

After the death of Siraj ud-Daulah, Nabakrishna Deb along with Mir Jafar, Amir Beg and Ramchand Roy earned eight crore rupees worth of treasures from the secret treasury.

19 of Kolkata Municipal Corporation and is bounded by Baghbazar on the north, Shyambazar and Hatibagan on the east, Beniatola and Nimtala on the south and the Hooghly River on the west.

He set a pattern for the puja which became a fashion and a status symbol among the upcoming merchant class of Kolkata.

The Englishmen attending the dance parties dined on beef and ham from Wilson's Hotel and drank to their heart's contentment.

In most Bengali pujas Ganesha dons the traditional dhuti-chadar, but at Shobhabazar he is an idol worshipped by the Marwari ancestors of Jagat Seth; and Durga wears jewellery designed after the Mughals or Nawabs of Oudh.

[7][8][9] It was in the Shobhabazar Rajbari dalan (courtyard) that Swami Vivekananda was accorded a civic reception after his return from the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago.