Akhbar-i Mahabbat 2: Account of Farásdángá.

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Chandernagore, alias Farásdángá, is twelve kos from Calcutta, and there is a factory in it belonging to the French Christians. It is a small town on the banks of the Bhágíratí. An officer on the part of the King of France remains there to govern the town and manage the commercial affairs of the place. The English have no concern with it. In the same manner, Chochra (Chinsura) is in possession of the tribe of Walandíz (Hollanders). This place is a little to the south of the port of Húghlí, and is one kos to the north of Farásdángá. In like manner, Seorámpúr (Serampore), which is also situated on the same stream, and opposite to Chának, has a factory of the tribe of Dánamár (Denmark), by which name the station itself is sometimes called. In these places no other rule prevails than that of the nation which owns the factories.
I again resume my original subject. Nawab Ja'far Khán, towards the close of his life, built on his own property, which lay to the east of the city of Murshídábád, a ganj, a katrá, a mosque, a minaret, a reservoir, and a large well. He also raised his tomb at the foot of the stairs of the mosque, with the view that by that means it might not soon get injured, and that by the fortunate contiguity of the mosque, prayers might constantly be made in his name. As his end approached, having no son, he appointed as his representative and successor Sarfaraz Khan, his daughter's son, whom he had brought up from infancy, and consigned to his care all public treasure, the buried wealth, furniture, and all the privileges appertaining to the Nizam and the Emperor.