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Garden Reach, municipality in eastern India, in Bangla State, on the Hugli (Hooghly) River. Garden Reach is a western suburb of Kolkata. The community, named for a section of the river, was once chiefly residential but now has industries, including tanning and jute and cotton ginning and milling. An extensive dry-dock basin and a power station are situated here. During the recapture of Kolkata by the British in 1756 and 1757, Robert Clive seized the fort in the western end of Garden Reach. Population (1991) 191,107.
