Calcutta (Kolkata), long the capital of British India and one of the largest cities in the world, is still the commercial metropolis of modern India. Its population is over 15,000,000: this is one of the world’s problem cities – no slums are as apalling as Calcutta’s Bustees. And yet Calcutta is a dynamic port handling 40 % of India’s exports. Dum Dum Airport is 12 miles from the city center. Hotels in Calcutta:

Hindusthan International, 235 / 1 Acharya Jagadish Bose Road
Oberoi Grand, 15 J. Nehru Road
Great Eastern, 1 – 3 Old Court House Street
Park, 17 Park Street
Lytton, 14 Sudder Street (AP)
Spences, 4 Wellesley Place