Serampur. a town of India, built in the European style, and extending a mile along the right bank of the Hooghly, 13 miles by rail N. of Calcutta. Paper and mats are manufactured. It was at one time a Danish settlement, but was transferred by purchase to the British in 1845. It is celebrated for the labours of the Baptist missionaries Carey, Marshman, and Ward. Pop. 35,959.
Serampur.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 320
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