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Dasgupta & Co. is believed to be the oldest bookshop on College Street, the mecca of book-lovers in Calcutta. The business started in 1886, with just 50 books, and the stalwarts of Bengal Renaissance such as Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and Ishwar Chandra V

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