19/01/2024
Prinsep Ghat is an iconic location in the city for a variety of reasons and the most important one is the heritage it holds. It was built in the year 1841, during the British Raj in India. The ghat has been named after an ingenious Anglo-Indian researcher and scholar, James Prinsep after whom this was built.
James Prinsep had made remarkable contributions in the fields of meteorology, Indian scriptures, archaeology, etc. He was also the Secretary of the honourable Asiatic Society and deciphered the Brahmi script of Emperor Ashoka from inscriptions on rocks. Upon his death, in the year 1843, a Palladian porch was built by W. Fitzgerald. Earlier, British royalty used the Prinsep ghat jetty for boarding and unboarding passengers.
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