Ghughumari is a village and a

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in the

Cooch Behar I Cooch Behar I is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision of the Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Guriahati, one of the constituent panc ...

CD block in the

Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision is a subdivision of the Cooch Behar district in the state of West Bengal, India. Subdivisions Cooch Behar district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions: Administrative units Cooch Behar Sad ...

of the

Cooch Behar district Cooch Behar district () is a district of Indian state of West Bengal. Formerly part of the Kamarupa kingdom, the area became the heart of the Kamata Kingdom in the 12th century. During the British Raj, the district was known as Cooch Behar st ...

in the state of

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Geography

Location

Ghughumari is located at .

Area overview

The map alongside shows the north-central part of the district. It has the highest level of urbanisation in an overwhelming rural district. 22.08% of the population of the Cooch Behar Sadar subdivision lives in the urban areas and 77.92% lives in the rural areas. The district forms the flat

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flood plains of mighty rivers. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Civic administration

The headquarters of the Cooch Behar I CD block are located at Ghughumari.

Demographics

As per the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Ghughumari had a total population of 13,764. There were 7,019 (51%) males and 6,745 (49%) females. There were 1,704 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Ghughumari was 9,146 (75.84% of the population over 6 years).

Handicrafts

There are about 14,000 families weaving pati or sitalpati in and around Ghughumari. After the partition of Bengal in 1947, a number of families migrated from

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, now in Bangladesh, and settled in this area. They brought the age-old tradition of weaving pati and that helped them survive. Generally, men are engaged in growing the plants and extracting the fibre, and the women are engaged in weaving.

References

{{Cooch Behar District Villages in Cooch Behar district