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7 unusual facts about Bardhaman district


Bardhaman district

Purbasthali–II community development bloc consists of rural areas with 10 gram panchayats and one census town: Patuli.

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Ausgram–II community development bloc consists of rural areas only with 7 gram panchayats.

Asansol, Kulti, Bhanowara, Jamuria, Jemari, Raniganj, Putsuri, Amkula, Murgathaul, Raghunathchak and Ballavpur together form the Asansol UA.

Ausgram–I community development bloc consists of rural areas only with 7 gram panchayats.

Purbasthali–I community development bloc consists of rural areas with 7 gram panchayats and three census towns: Srirampur, Hatsimla and Gopinathpur.

Jungle Mahals

In 1805, Regulation XVIII was passed whereby the areas known as Jungle Mahals was separated from the jurisdiction of the Magistrates of the districts of Burdwan, Birbhum, Bankura and Midnapore and placed under a Magistrate of Jungle Mahals.


Galsi Mahavidyalaya

Galsi Mahavidyalaya, is the general degree college in Galsi, Bardhaman district.

Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah

According to the Padachandrika, a commentary on the Amarakosha in Sanskrit, Brihaspati Mishra, a Brahmin from Kulingram (present-day Bardhaman district), was promoted by Sultan Jalaluddin to the position of the Sarvabhaumapandita (Court Scholar).

Kunur River

With water from several small streams swelling it during the monsoons, it often floods large areas of Ausgram and Mangalkot police stations of Bardhaman district.


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Dhatrigram

After partition of India, many skilled weavers of Dhaka came and settled in West Bengal around Shantipur in Nadia district and Ambika Kalna of Bardhaman district, both traditionally renowned centres for hand-woven fabrics.

Harish Chandra Mukherjee

Son of Ramdhan Mukherjee, the family hailed from Sridharpur in Bardhaman district but he was brought up in his maternal uncle’s place at Bhowanipur in Kolkata.

Nabagram

Nabagram, Bardhaman, a town and railway station in Bardhaman district in the state West Bengal of India

Nabgram, a town in Bardhaman district in the state West Bengal, India