In a latest attempt to remove any trace of the British colonial era, West Bengal Governor KN Tripathi re-christened four palatial suites in his official Raj Bhawan residence after Indian well-known leaders, in Kolkata. Regional authorities dropped the names of British royals and aristocrats at the 214 year old Government House. The largest of the suites which was once home to the Viceroy until 1911, was named after the Prince of Wales in lieu with Prince Edward's stay there in 1921. It has now been renamed after Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, the only native Indian to ever receive the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913.
Another suit which was once named after the 1st Viscount Waverly John Anderson, has been renamed after Bengali Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda. Another ground floor set of rooms known as the Second Class Suite, is now known as Bhutal Kaksha.
When India's capital shifted from Kolkata to New Delhi, successive Viceroys occupied Government House in 1911, after which it became the official residence of Bengal's Lieutenant Governor. The neoclassical building, modelled on Lord Curzon's Kedleston Hall family mansion in Derbyshire, became the Viceroy's official residence after power transferred to the British Crown in 1858.
