Rashbehari Avenue

Rashbehari Avenue
Ballygunge Avenue
Former name(s)	Main Sewer Road
Maintained by	Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Location	Kolkata, India
Nearest Kolkata Metro station	Kalighat and Hemanta Mukherjee(under construction)
West end	Chetla
East end	Gariahat, with an extension to Ruby Hospital

Rashbehari Avenue (earlier known as Main Sewer Road or Ballygunge Avenue)^[1] is one of the most prestigious and important east–west avenues of Kolkata, India. A major portion of this road is often commonly referred to as Gariahat, the prime shopping and aristocratic residential neighbourhood of south Kolkata. Rashbehari Avenue falls in the posh residential neighbourhood of Ballygunge. The road is named after Sir Rash Behari Ghosh who was an Indian politician, lawyer, social worker and philanthropist.^[2]

^ Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti. streets in motion: the making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009109208.
^ See Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009109208

[1] Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti. streets in motion: the making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009109208.

[2] See Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009109208

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