BALLY

also spelled Bali, or Baly city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. Bally lies just west of the Hooghly River. A part of the Howrah urban agglomeration, it is connected by road and rail with Howrah, Kharagpur, and Burdwan and is a steamer station for traffic along the Hooghly. Major industries in the city include jute, paper, and bone milling, iron- and steel-rolling works, and the manufacture of chemical fertilizer, cotton cloth, bricks, and glass. The Bally Bridge across the Hooghly to Baranagar was opened in 1931. Constituted a municipality in 1883, Bally has a college that is affiliated with Rabindra Bharati University in Calcutta. Pop. (1991 prelim.) 181,978.