Howrah, or HAURA, a town of India, with growing manufactures, on the right or west bank of the Hooghly, directly opposite to Calcutta, of which it is practically a suburb. It is connected with Calcutta by a floating bridge (1874), and is the Bengal terminus of the East Indian Railway. Pop. (1872) 97,784; (1881) 105,628; (1891) 129,800.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 817
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