College Street is a 900 metre long street in Central Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. Also known as Boi Para, it stretches from Bidhan Sarani road up to Bowbazar via MG Road crossing and Surya Sen Street crossing. Its name derives from the presence of numerous colleges and universities like University of Calcutta, Calcutta Medical College, Presidency University, The Sanskrit College and University, City College of Commerce and Business Administration etc. The road houses many centres of intellectual activity especially the Indian Coffee House, a café that has attracted the city's intelligentsia for decades. College Street is the largest book market in India as well as Asia and the largest secondhand book market in the whole world.
Book stores and tram tracks along College Street
Front view of Hindu School, the oldest educational institution in College Street, in August 2022.
College Street view
College Street and Surjo Sen Street crossing
Bidhan Sarani is a principal north–south thoroughfare in north part of Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It was named after the first Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy. The road starts from Shyambazar five-point crossing and extends up to MG Road crossing, after which the street continues as College Street towards the south. Bidhan Sarani encompasses the neighbourhoods of Shyambazar, Hatibagan, Hedua, Shimla, Thanthania and College Street.
Bidhan Sarani
Christ Church at Bidhan Sarani, Manicktala, Hedua, Machuabazar, established in 1839 by Bishop Wilson.
Thanthania Rajbati (colonial era palace) on Bidhan Sarani, near College Street.
Thanthania Kalibari