The Sabarna Roy Choudhury family sold three villages to the East India Company in 1698, and their descendants won a 2003 ruling that Job Charnock did not found Kolkata

The Sabarna Roy Choudhury family held the zamindari rights over the villages of Sutanuti, Govindapur and Kalikata under the Mughals. Job Charnock of the East India Company set up the Company's headquarters there on 24 August 1690. He died in Calcutta in January 1693, and his son-in-law and successor, Charles Eyre, built his mausoleum in what is now St John's churchyard. On 9 November 1698 the family executed the deed selling their rights over the three villages to Eyre for 1,300 rupees, and the family moved south to Barisha. The British took the tenancy on 10 November 1698. For three centuries Calcutta marked 24 August as its foundation day and named Charnock its founder. In April 2002 the Sabarna Roy Choudhury Parivar Parishad and nine others filed a public interest petition in the Calcutta High Court. The court appointed five historians, chaired by Nemai Sadan Bose, who found that Charnock was not the founder; Kalikata appears in the Ain-i-Akbari of 1596. On 16 May 2003 Chief Justice Asoke Kumar Mathur and Justice Jayanta Biswas ruled that Charnock would no longer be named the founder and that the city had neither a founder nor a foundation day. The state accepted the ruling and asked for a year to correct its textbooks. The family runs the Sabarna Sangrahashala museum in Kolkata.