In the nineteenth century many factories were set up in Entally because of the low cost of land. South of Entally was the Volunteer Rifle Range constructed in 1877. In those days, the Municipal Railway ran along the side of Lower Circular Road (renamed Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road) and the Lakes by way of Sealdah and conveyed several hundred tonnes of sweepings daily which were employed to raise a square mile of land, which had been bunded off from the lanes for the purpose. It contains a large number of European residences, some of them fine buildings in extensive grounds.' Situated in 155A AJC Bose Road near Entally Market stands the house of Henry Derozio (European by origin) pioneer of Bengal Renaissance and Young Bengal movement. Cotton describes Entally in the twentieth century as 'an area extensively intersected with numerous roads and lanes. Rich Hindu milk businessmen (Gwala, Gop, Sadgop and Ghosh community) occupied an area near the Entally market and forbade low caste people to come near their locality (Gopelane, Panbagan Lane). However upper-class European resided in the Entally post office (originally known as Intally Post Office) neighbourhood. Upper caste Hindus avoided living in the area because of the municipal slaughter house, Chinese-owned tanneries and piggeries (near Tangra which is close to Entally). Odia palanquin-bearers, poor Christians, Muslims, Chinese and other depressed communities such as Dalits, lived in the area. It was considered to be a suburb beyond the limits of the Maratha Ditch. These villages were known en-bloc as Dihi Panchannagram and Entally was one of them. After the fall of Siraj-ud-daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, it purchased these villages in 1758 from Mir Jafar and reorganised them. The remaining 33 villages were on the Calcutta side. Of these, five lay across the Hooghly in what is now Howrah district. The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their settlement. It was one of the prime place where people have raised their voice for social justice for the 1st time in the history of Indian social reforms way back to British colonial rule in India. Entally was also the centre of movements for social justice and cultural development of the non-higher caste Hindus, Dalits and minorities. He was a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (Born18 April 1809 in Entally, Died 26 December 1831 in Entally), was an Indian poet of English and Portuguese origin and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata. Mother Teresa started her activities in Entally. It was considered close to the area which was home to the poor and the depressed castes. Entally (also spelt Entali) is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Calcutta population 2019