📍JAMES PRINCEP MONUMENT: Prinsep Ghat is an iconic location in the city for a variety of reasons and the most important one is the heritage it holds It was built in the year 1841, during the British Raj in India The ghat has been named after an ingenious Anglo-Indian researcher and scholar, James Prinsep after whom this was built James Prinsep had made remarkable contributions in the fields of meteorology, Indian scriptures, archaeology, etc He was also the Secretary of the honourable Asiatic Society and deciphered the Brahmi script of Emperor Ashoka from inscriptions on rocks The palladian porch is significant for its Greek and Gothic inlays The structure is square in shape, supported by Ionian columns that support a forty-foot ceiling The entire structure is white in colour which stands out as a prominent aspect of our history

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