Bengali entrepreneurs, their history goes back to Dwarkanath Tagore who acquired the Raniganj collieries in 1836 from an English agency house, Alexander & Co. This was followed with ventures for operating tugboats, steamboat services connecting Kolkata and Allahabad, and a steam-powered floating ferry across the Hooghly, mainly to use the coal that was mined. Dwarkanath […]
08th Apr 2022- The Bengal Story
