SFS Contest Picture of the Day Week 29

In 1772 the capital of Bengal was shifted from Murshidabad to Calcutta by the first British governor-general Warren Hastings. Within the next few years the city gained power as other port cities of Bombay and Madras came under it. From Calcutta that the British rose and ruled India all the way till 1911 when the capital was shifted to Delhi but this was after Queen Victoria's time.

Queen the turret of the grand title of the Empress of India in 1876 after the control of India came under the crown following the revolt of 1857. It was under her that the British Empire really spread and thrived she died in 1901 when she was 81 years old while Victoria never visited India she left her marker after her death. But then white soy of India Lord Curzon ordered that a fitting memorial be made in memory of the Queen on the 4th of January 1906 the foundation stone of the memorial was laid by the Prince of Wales George V.

It was after 15 long years the gates of Victoria Memorial was opened to the public in 1921 it is said that this memorial was supposed to rival the Taj Mahal of Agra. In fact the Victoria Memorial can be described as a part of the Raj not many would know but before the Grand Victoria Memorial was constructed in the same place used to house the presidency jail it was built here in 1778 the jail was eventually moved to Ali port in West Bengal in 1906 and the old structure was pulled down to make way for the Victoria Memorial.

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