Maratha Ditch

**Maratha Ditch**
Maratha Ditch
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
	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]

^ Banerjee, Sandeep (21 March 2019). Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-68639-9. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b Borden, 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.
^ foundation, Temple of India (10 August 2018). Bengal – India's Rebellious Spirit. Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-64324-746-5. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
^ 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.
^ Bajpai, Lopamudra Maitra (7 February 2019). Stories of the Colonial Architecture: Kolkata-Colombo. Doshor Publication. ISBN 978-81-939544-0-9. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

[sp-1] Banerjee, Sandeep (21 March 2019). Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-68639-9. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

[city-2] Borden, 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.

[bengal-3] undation, Temple of India (10 August 2018). Bengal – India's Rebellious Spirit. Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-64324-746-5. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

[4] Acworth, Harry Arbuthnot (1894). Ballads of Marathas. Longmans, Green, and Company. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

[5] 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.

[story-6] Bajpai, Lopamudra Maitra (7 February 2019). Stories of the Colonial Architecture: Kolkata-Colombo. Doshor Publication. ISBN 978-81-939544-0-9. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

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