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Taratala Road

road in Kolkata in West Bengal, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ136953121 ↗
Source-derived summary

Taratala Road is an important road that runs through South Kolkata connecting Garden Reach near Ramnagar and Taratala near Taratala Crossing.

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“Taratala Road” enters the record as road in Kolkata in West Bengal, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Taratala, Road and road can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Taratala, Road and road.
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“Taratala Road” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Taratala, Road and road provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q136953121. Authority coordinates are 22.513, 88.308. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Taratala Road” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.