Gumut is a village and
gram panchayat
Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bo ...
in the
Bishnupur CD block in the
Bishnupur subdivision
Bishnupur subdivision is a subdivision of the Bankura district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Subdivisions
Bankura district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:
Bishnupur subdivision has a density of population of 5 ...
of the
Bankura district
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in the state of
West Bengal
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,
India
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. It includes Muninagar.
Geography
Location
Gumut is located at .
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.
Demographics
According to 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 ...
, Gumut had a total population of 1,723, of which 872 (51%) were males and 851 (49%) were females. There were 162 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Gumut was 1,136 (72.77% of the population over 6 years).
Education
Gumut Vidyasagar Sisu Shiksha Niketan was established in 2010 and Gumut Girls Primary School was established in 1939.
Muninagar Radhakanta Bidyapith is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1956. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 10 computers, a library with 2,500 books and a playground.
Culture
David J. McCutchion mentions the Muninagar Radha Kanta temple, located in Gumut, as a smooth twin plain laterite temple built in 1678.
He further elaborates that in the tradition of Odisha, the porch or (a kind of assembly hall) is under a separate roof. It is as large as or larger than the main shrine in base dimensions. It is attached to the main shrine by a passageway ). Similarly, a or a could be attached. The shrine or is in style and the other buildings are in style. This tradition had a strong influence on the medieval temples in Midnapore and Bankura. The style is generally used for the tower of the and rarely for the main shrine. Sometimes, the is reduced to an entry porch. It can also be the other way around. At places such as Kharar and the 17th century Radha Kanta temple at Muninagar and earlier at
Baidyapur, the porch is almost as high as the main shrine, giving the impression of twin deuls.
The temple of Radha Kanta at Muninagar (at Sr No S-WB-10) is included in the
List of State Protected Monuments in West Bengal by the Archaeological Survey of India.
References
{{Temple towns in West Bengal
Villages in Bankura district