Entally
Upper caste Hindus avoided living in the area because of the municipal slaughter house, Chinese-owned tanneries and piggeries (near Tangra which is close to Entally).Rich Hindu milk businessmen (Gwala, Gop, Sadgop and Ghosh community) occupied an area near the Entally market and forbade low caste people to come near their locality (Gopelane, Panbagan Lane).In those days, the Municipal Railway ran along the side of Lower Circular Road (renamed Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road) and the Lakes by way of Sealdah and conveyed several hundred tonnes of sweepings daily which were employed to raise a square mile of land, which had been bunded off from the lanes for the purpose.In 1948, when she secured permission to work fully with the poor and the sick, she established a home in an obscure house in Entally, with a nurse's training and a meager Rs.Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, the 1st chief minister of West Bengal during his tenure from 1947 to 1948 addressed several meetings in this place.He gave importance to educational and overall cultural development of non-upper caste Hindu's, depressed communities, Dalits and minorities.For uplifting backward classes Sir Jnan Chandra Ghosh suggested developing institution for technical education which was later realised by establishment of Central Calcutta Pyrotechnic in Entally.He composed many devotional songs while spreading the spiritual practice and teaching of his Master Sri Ramakrishna in the locality until his demise in 1911."[14] Archanalaya celebrated 100 years in 2002 and renovated the old temple with a full-sized seated statue of Sri Ramakrishna there, inaugurated by Swami Gahanananda,[15] Vice president of Ramakhrishna Mission that time.