In 1951, the southern part of Tollygunge was added to Calcutta. While a portion of Tollygunge formed the South Suburban Municipality, northern Tollygunge which was part of the earlier Suburban Municipality was made one of the 'added area wards' of Kolkata Municipal Corporation. In 1889, the suburbs of Calcutta were divided among 4 municipalities.
In 1888, Ballygunge and Tollygunge formed a common thana when 25 new Police Section Houses were set up. The British extended their patronage to Tollygunge Club and Tollygunge Golf Club in the 19th century. Tipu Sultan's sons settled down in the area after the Vellore Mutiny in 1806. It was renamed after Colonel William Tolly who made the dead Adi Ganga channel navigable in 1774. The Europeans, living in the central areas of old Calcutta, had a craze for villas far out in the sleepy villages, coming up as suburbs. In the 18th century, Tollygunge, then called Rasa Pagla, was a jungle with garden houses of the Europeans located here and there.
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