Note 20 — Chapter III · —THIRD PERIOD: IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT.—1798-1836.
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Kali, the black goddess, is the tutelar deity of Calcutta. By a strange anomaly, Calcutta is so called after the temple Kali, at the village of Kali ghat, in the suburbs of the British metropolis. The temple enclosure, where kids and goats are sacrificed, is not a pleasant place to look at.