Gitanjali Roy
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Gitanjali Roy is senior editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica. She has over two decades of editorial experience across digital and broadcast media. She has a degree in Literature from the University of Delhi.
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University of Calcutta, state-controlled institution of higher learning in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Founded by the East India Company in British India in 1857, the university is named for the city of Calcutta, as Kolkata was called at the time. Modeled on the University of London, the…
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