Seventy years after independence, one of Kolkata's remaining vestiges of colonial rule has been abandoned, after regional authorities dropped the names of British royals and aristocrats from palatial suites at the 214-year-old Government House.

Provincial Governor K N Tripathi re-christened four palatial suites in his official Raj Bhawan residence after Indian celebrities, in the latest attempt to remove traces of the colonial era.

The largest of the suites in the three-storey residence, which was home to the Viceroy until 1911, was named after the Prince of Wales following Prince Edward’s stay there in 1921.