The Maratha Ditch is on the boundary of Calcutta city, circling Omichund's and Gobindram Mitter's mansions
Type
Entrenchment
Site information
Controlled by
British East India Company (1757–1858)
Site history
Built
1793
Battles/wars
Maratha invasions of Bengal
The Maratha Ditch was a three-mile-long[1] deep entrenchment constructed by the English East India Company around Fort William in Calcutta. It was built to protect the surrounding villages and forts from the Maratha Bargi raiders.[2][3][4][5] The ditch marked the outer limits of Calcutta city in the nineteenth century.[6][2]
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^ abBorden, Iain; Kerr, Joe; Pivaro, Alicia; Rendell, Jane (2002). The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52335-6. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
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^Acworth, Harry Arbuthnot (1894). Ballads of Marathas. Longmans, Green, and Company. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
^Cooper, Randolf G. S. (2003). The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India: The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military Economy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82444-6. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
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