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Notwithstanding the contemporary popularity of the neighbourhood’s name, a new book has claimed that ‘Purbanchal’ and not ‘C R Park’ was the choice of the majority of people, when the two options were “put to vote” by the East Pakistan Displaced Persons’ Association or EPDP. Wondered how CR park was established and named? Find out in #DelhiInThyName #delhi #dilli #crpark /VW4S3c4Zcr I had met him at his home in B block, the same one that he had built when the colony was first established.’ ‘Paritosh was one of the first residents of CR Park.
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Nicknamed ‘Little Calcutta’, the upscale neighbourhood in the capital city, known for its fish markets, old shops selling delectable sweets like ‘sondesh’ and ‘chomchom’, and for its affluent residents, many of whom trace their roots to undivided India on the eastern front.Ī slice of Bengal in Delhi, known officially, today as ‘Chittranjan Park’, and popularly called ‘C R Park’, was conceived nearly 70 years ago, after the 1947 Partition, to cater to people who had migrated or been displaced from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), which was born out of the East Bengal region.