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One of the elegant edifices on the Hooghly River. It originally belonged to Asutosh De or Chatu Babu, one of the figures of the 19th-century Bengali Renaissance. In 1873, during a dengue outbreak, Debendranath Tagore took refuge at this house with his family. This is where his son Rabindranath had his first encounter with nature, away from the busy life in Kolkata, something he later vividly recalled in his autobiography My Reminiscences. He revisited the house in 1919 after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Punjab, and it was here where he decided to renounce his knighthood in protest. As the home eventually passed on the hands of Mymensingh zamindar Gopal Das Choudhury, he opened a home for destitute girls after his father, which is still active.
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বারো মন্দির ঘাট Bārō Mondir Ghāṭ
A row of 12 Shiva temples along the Hooghly River.
A "pancharatna" (five-pinnacled) temple dedicated to Radha-Krishna. The temple premise resembles that of Dakshineswar with a row of Shiva temples at riverside and a ghat at the middle, but without the crowd. The temple was built by Giribala Dasi, a granddaughter-in-law of Rani Rashmoni, who constructed the Dakshineswar temple.
Sodepur Khadi Pratisthan
Founded in 1921 by Satish Chandra Dasgupta, a close aide of Mahatma Gandhi. The institution occupies an important place in Indian independence movement and which Gandhi himself called it his second home like Sabarmati Ashram. He visited the place several times during the period of 1939 to 1947.