Fort William

The Indian Army has recently decided to rename its Eastern Command headquarters Fort William in Kolkata as 'Vijay Durg'.

• About Fort William: Situated in Kolkata, West Bengal, on the eastern banks of the Hooghly River, a distributary of the Ganga.
• Built between 1696-1706 by the British East India Company under Sir John Goldsborough.
• Rebuilt Fort: 1758-1781, reconstructed under Robert Clive after the Battle of Plassey (1757).
• Architecture: Covers 70 hectares, one of the largest British-era military structures in India.
• Star-shaped layout for enhanced defense.
• Current Use: Serves as the headquarters of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command.
• Cultural & Military Heritage: Houses a war memorial & museum with artifacts from the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War and Bangladesh Liberation War.