ABSTRACT
Calcutta had great potentialities to grow as a stable and permanent pilgrim centre, a vast religious town that could have added much to the pilgrim heritage of India. But in the long run it did not. Why it failed to derive its inspiration for urbanization from its being a pilgrim spot is the subject of study in this chapter. It explores how Calcutta emerged as the new urban centre under the British rule but continued to maintain its heritage as a pilgrim centre in more than one way.
