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.

[3][4][5] In the eastern fringes of Kolkata, the neighbourhoods such as Tangra, Tiljala, Topsia and Dhapa, were populated largely with people who migrated from poverty-stricken and caste-ridden villages, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

They came with dreams of a better life but landed in the slums with open drains, pigsties, factory chimneys and pungent chemicals.

They escaped from the petty persecution they faced in their villages but were far removed from mainstream urban life and culture.

Suspended between the twin towers at the top is a floating sky sculpture, named Deya, meaning cloud.

Gobinda Chandra Khatik Road/Ambedkar Sarani (towards Tangra) and Basanti Highway (part of SH 3) also start from here.