Serampore & Denmark - A Living History by the Ganges 

These towns along the west coast of Hooghly were the life blood of south Bengal's cultural renaissance and centres of burgeoning trade. Serampore (Danish) and Chandernagore (French till 1957) were the last two European colonies. But Chunchura (Chinsurah, Dutch), Hooghly (Ugulim, Portuguese), Bandel (Portuguese), and briefly Baidyabati / Rishra (German), were other important colonies. This is a fantastic effort to preserve the historical buildings and artifacts especially at a time when most of the world is trying to erase their history.

As the great great great great grandson of Dr William Carey DD, I salute the Serampore Initiative and the fantastic work that they have achieved at Serampore. I was privileged to meet Bente Wolff at Serampore in 2015 and saw some of the work in progress then. This film is beautifully put together and is most interesting.

আপনাদের অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ। আমাদের শ্রীরামপুর এর অজ্ঞাত ইতিহাস সম্পর্কে আমাদের ধারণা দেবার জন্য।🙏🙏

Fascinating. A tour circuit, from Fort William to Serampore-Chandernagar-Chinsurah-Bandel is on my wishlist. Thank for the beautiful video. Kudos to the Museum of Denmark for taking up the restoration work.

Delighted to see this video. I grew up in Serampore. My father Professor M. N. Biswas was associated with Serampore College for 52 years as a student, a Professor and finally the Principal. We lived on the college campus. I grew up on the river bank. I studied in Serampore College. Graduated from Serampore College in 1965 with a BA (Hons) degree. My father built his retirement house in Mallickpara. As a young boy and man I knew every nook and corner of Serampore. I know all the buildings that have been renovated. I have many glorious memories of Serampore especially going to St.Olaf’s Church during Christmas. I will go to Serampore one more time before I die. My roots are in Serampore. I have to see my mother one more time. She is buried in the Carey Cemetery in Serampore. Sincerely, Dr. Bhaskar Biswas

Beautiful documentary....Proud to be a resident of Serampore. And many thanks to the Danish Government for comming forward and to restructure of the Historic icons.

One of the best vlogs I have come across on Serampore. The local government not only should uphold the rich history but should do more to beautify the surrounding areas of these historical places/building specially the ghats of Ganges

Saw Serampore from a different angle...Thank you so very much The Serampore Initiative 🙏🙏Team for this unique Gift to us.

The documentary has aptly and beautifully highlighted the rich historical heritage of Sreerampore। The narrations in Bengali as well as in English are excellent। Thanks to my colleague Ujjal Gupta, a resident of Sreerampore and ex student of Sreerampore College, for forwarding me the video।

Khub sundar sir. Eta amader desh, amader culture, amader itihas, amader garbo. Thanks.

A town which had multiple strata of History....the pre Urbanization period was dominated by the Indian Hindu cultural history ( Mahesh Temple, Radhaballav temple, Doltala temple)...Next came the colonial Urbanization period led by the Danish....& After that the Industrialization phase which was dominated by the British... Serampore was also a hub of Education, culture & information .. Serampore College, British Missionaries & Missionary Printing Press shows the evidence of promising propagation of Education & culture through precious heritage.

Serampore will always be in my heart🥰 really proud of all who made such a beautiful video of serampore 👍

Congratulations for the great reconstruction. Brings our heritage to life.

Thank you Denmark, you made my day today. Grown up with these old relic's , but never focused on them

Oooo....the tavern is wonderful 👍👍

Mesmerized as being an honored resident of this locality...

ভিডিওটা খুব ভালো হয়েছে। বেশ তথ্যসমৃদ্ধ ও শিক্ষাপ্রদ।

Such a wonderful and informative video.

I must say that not only the content but also the whole presentation was undoubtedly at professional level. Animations and transitions were so good. We all knew nuggets of historical facts about our beloved Serampore city, but presenting the whole in a form like this is absolutely blissful and breathtaking. Thank you creaters.

Beautifully crafted, the documentary is a glorious testament to our rich history and heritage. The restoration work done is so very remarkable. Too tempted to visit Serampore after watching this.

Wonderful work done. Our heart felt thanks to all of you connected with this excellent job.

It's great to see such hidden relics of Bengal being brought out. Was never even aware of such a rich history. Hope the good work of restoration and maintenance continues.

অপুর্ব। এককথায় অসাধারণ। বাঙ্লার সমৃদ্ধ ইতিহাসের তথা ডেনমার্কের সমৃদ্ধ ইতিহাসের সুন্দর মেলবন্ধন। কতো অজানা তথ্য সামনে এল। শ্রীরামপুরের গর্বের ইতিহাস মনকে ছুয়ে গেল। দৃশ্যায়ণ, চমৎকার। আমার মধ্যে একটা স্মৃতিমেদুরতা কাজ করছে। আমিও একটা সমৃদ্ধশালী রাজনগর কোচবিহারের বাসিন্দা। ৮০০ বছরের ইতিহাস মনকে দোলা দিল। খুব সুন্দর উপস্থাপনা। উচ্চ মানের ভিডিও। অনেক অনেক শুভেচ্ছা ও ভালোবাসা রইল। ভালো থাকবেন। আগামীর পথ চলা শুভ হোক❤

The work to restore history is commendable! And this video is top-notch!

Excellent and thank you sir sharing the story

Brilliant. Drone footage is excellent. Thanks for sharing the story.

Editing!! Marvellous ❤️

This is such a wonderful work...this work of restoration not only brings to the fore narratives of our lost heritage and history but it will also inspire many such works. This is the plurality of India. Congratulations.

This is the best way to get our history so relevant to our new and future generation. Salute to the people of Denmark to show us the way and inspiring us. I lived on the other side of the river Ganga. Proud to see Shrirampur to claim its new historical identity and inspiring me to visit again with much more to expect.

EXCELLENT ... NOT ONLY SUBJECT WISE BUT ALSO TECHNICAL AND EDITING WISE

A pioneering work. Excellent.

Full of plenty of info and very much beautifully prepared this vdo so that anybody can learn many points of history👍👍

Darun laglo...

I love serampore. Sir anek din por apnake dekhe khub khub bhalo laglo.

Feel myself a little bit fortune to get the live documentary on our historical & sweet town of Serampore. We are delighted to have the complete history including our heart touching relation to foreign countries. Thanks a lot to all concerned persons, for the successful launch of this mega event. -from Subhankar De

আমি গর্বিত আমি শ্রীরামপুরবাসী .. দারুণ কাজ ভাস্কর ...

I just loved the video... Lovely

Wow...Nice...Thank you... Proud to be a seramporian

Beautifully made documentary...backed by research... presentation too is praiseworthy

Khub khub khub sundor

Please make more videos on serampore like this if possible !amazing video, keep it up!

Thank you so much to the team for making this video. Had know idea about Serampur, thought it's mainly famous for Rathyatra of Mahesh . This town is actually even older than Kolkata!! Excellent work...thanks again..

Excellent, very interesting and informative document

Bhaskar Sir.... Today I m feeling proud being a student of Serampore College...Awsome demonstration

Brilliantly edited. The story well told. Bhaskar, am moved.

Its a very well made, thoroughly researched and elegantly presented documentary. Many thanks from a proud son of the soil, now settled abroad.

It's really amazing short well informed library which tell us Serampore beautiful history with facts great work danmark team.

Excellent

Thank you soo much.onek kichui Jana chilo na. Will visit soon.

Thank you for making the video - great drone shots. It was good to see Henry Martyn's pagoda and the Serampore College of William Carey, Marsham and Ward. They loved India so much. Great restoration work. The book 'Carey Christ and Cultural Transformation' by Ruth & Vishal Manalwadi reveals the extent of their work in India towards the people they loved.

It is really fantastic and feel proud to know the previous history, culture and education of this places by the then people of India & Denmark. Thanks to the hidden heroes who has taken lot of time & labour to prepare this Film.

Wow.... It's so nice... Great going Dr. Bhaskar Chaudhury

Khub valo laglo

খুব সুন্দর। এই শহরের বাসিন্দা হিসেবে আলাদা রকমের স্বাদ পেলাম।

Wow.... I went here in MARCH of this year, but I didn't really know about the such a great historical value.

Wonderful 👌🏼

Very interesting film on the restoration and history of Srerampore.

Excellent,,,, Really happy to be a city of extraordinary architecture. Mail ties can be understood from the architecture of Darch and Bangla.

দারুন চালিয়ে জাও

Very professionally made video documentary. An elevating experience, my mind transcended back to the days of European colonialism of which I believe Danish colonial approach was more humane and cooperative. Thanks to Dr Bhaskar Chowdhury and his team for transporting me back to the glorious days of Serampore Trio. I really long to visit the historic town having had its facelift thru' the collaboration of the Government of Denmark and the Government of West Bengal.🙏💐

Wow sir thank u

My Serampore ❤️

Superb, unbelievable

উপস্থাপনা অসাধারণ ,আমার প্রাণের শহর শ্রীরামপুর আরো উজ্জীবিত হোক , বিশ্ব দরবার এ স্থান পাক এই আশা রাখি

Very informative and interesting documentation. 😍

Very well made and informative.... 👏👏👏👏

This video does not mention the name of Mrs. Gopa Sen, an architect of this wonderful project, responsible for the Government House and Red Building. Kindly add in the video

Serampore 💐🥰❣️ awesome video

Really feel happy.. Now I’m part of Srerampore as business owner..As a BENGALI, I love my culture a lot..After watching this video really I feel wow 🥰🥰🥰

Good to see,history repeats...thanks to the people behind this restoration of this historical place.

great

Amazing .. beautiful storytelling 🙏 thanks to WB GOVT & Danish museum corporation.. overall Graphics design and storytelling was excellent .

Sir.Dr Chowdhury Salute to you. As a citizen of the historical town now feel very much proud.

Excellent....👍👍👍

Good creation.

Excellent work...keep doing good work bro 😍

I'm sure that this video gonna make all serampore's citizen happy if this video reach between youth of serampore .hope our city ,our love SERAMPORE will grow more and more .guys please share this video .i'm proud because we r belongs to serampore but at first we r indians so jai hind guys 🇮🇳 🇮🇳

Excellent.. 💕

Serampore invokes nostalgic memories.my close friend shri N R Banerjee lives there.I have been there to his big house and roof over looking Ganges.so peaceful close to nature.if Denmark is similar I can enjoy though never been there Such an old settlement older than kolkata.happyto see video

Mere at den her længde doku's tak, dejligt at se hvad det er i går og laver.. og synes i burde gøre det obligatorisk at uploade klip fra ongoing udgravninger i hele landet..dagligt i sessonen.

Beautiful documentary on Serampore😊

I studied in shrirampore textile college and I love Shrirampur. Enjoyed the video 👏

Wow...

Bhaskar Sir your voice over is very nicely represent the history.

Now in jaipur Rajasthan but original decendant of Seerampore near Walsh hospital india jute Mills. Miss you Searampore.

Darun👌

Excellent documentary

A very well documented story. 👍

Amazing.....Rakm Kolkata y historical house glo Dennis ra krle r o vlo hto..

Very nice

lovely documentary

Truly inspirational

অসাধারণ।

Excilent....i am proud of serampore. Shibani bhattacharjee. N delhi

Just lovely.. Even I don't know the exact history, that Sreerampore was a Danish Colony. Being reside in Kolkata, I used to know that opposite site of Hooghly river is only a french settlement area. Very very informative documentary. Editing, drone shot, voice...👌👌👌 I want to say thanks and good wishes to the entire team associated with this.. Waiting for another gem in coming future..💐

অসাধারণ ডক্যুমেন্টারি, আমরা বাঙালী এবং শ্রীরামপুর বাসী হয়ে গর্বিত, জয় বাংলা ❤

I love Serampore.

Aha ❤️

এটা আমার ও কলেজ।অসাধারণ লাগল

Nostalgic... Heart beat increased... Tears come automatically... A big thanx to the editor...Heartiest congratulations to the entire team... Proud to be a seramporian... And also feeling proud as an Ex-student of Serampore college.