SERAMPUR  , a

town of British India, in the Hugli district of Bengal, on the right bank of the river Hugli, opposite Barrack-pore, on the East Indian railway, 12 M. from Howrah . Pop . (1901) 44,451• A Danish factory was established here about the middle of the 17th century, and called by them Frederiksnagar . With the rest of the Danish possessions in India, it was acquired by purchase by the English in 1845 . Serampur was the home of the Baptist mission founded by Carey . The mission press has been transferred to Calcutta, but a training college is still maintained by the mission . There is a jute mill, and paper is manufactured .