Who was instrumental in setting up of the colonial city of Calcutta during colonial India?

Job Charnock Calcuttendranath Tagore Raja Kolkattesh. Robert Clive

Job Charnock

Urbanisation in the colonial period saw the decline of some earlier urban centres and the emergence of new colonial cities. Kolkata was one of the first of such cities. In 1690, an English merchant named Job Charnock arranged to lease three villages (named Kolikata, Gobindapur, and Sutanuti) by the river Hugli in order to set up a trading post.