Nadanghat is a village, with a police station, in the

Purbasthali I Purbasthali I is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Nadanghat, a constituent panchayat of Purbasthali I bloc ...

CD block in Kalna subdivision of

Purba Bardhaman district Purba Bardhaman district is in West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district ...

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, India.

History

The Syeds were famed zemindars of the area during Muslim rule and they continued during the British period. When the

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was formed in Dhaka in 1906, it did not have much of an influence in Bardhaman district. Most of the Muslim leaders were with the Congress. In 1919, when Mahatma Gandhi launched the Khilafat movement and followed it up with a

non-cooperation movement The Non-cooperation movement was a political campaign launched on 4 September 1920, by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of persuading them to grant self-governance.

, Harihar Sen, played an important role in the area. In order to combat the famine of 1943, food committees were formed in Bardhaman district. The Kalna subdivisional conference was organised with great difficulty at Nadanghat. Haragobinda Rej, Talukdar Sheikh, Abodh Bihari Pandey and Abdul Hasnat played important roles in the movement. In the same year flood relief was organised by the Communist Party in a commendable manner in Nadanghat area.

Geography

Location

Nadanghat is located in the flood plains of the Khargeswari river or Khari river.

Police station

Nadanghat police station has jurisdiction over parts of

and

Purbasthali II Purbasthali II is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Patuli, a constituent gram panchayat of Purbasthali II CD Block ...

CD Blocks. The area covered is 60 km².

Urbanisation

87.00% of the population of Kalna subdivision live in the rural areas. Only 13.00% of the population live in the urban areas. 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

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 ...

, Nadanghat had a total population of 3,799 of which 1,951 (51%) were males and 1,848 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 396. The total number of literates in Nadanghat was 2,467 (72.49% of the population over 6 years).

Transport

The State Highway 8 running from Santaldih (in Purulia district) to Majhdia (in Nadia district) passes through Nadanghat.

Education

Nadanghat Rampuria High School, a coeducational institution With Science, is affiliated with West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. Nadanghat Annapurna Balika Vidyalaya is affiliated with the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.

Healthcare

There is a primary health centre at Nadanghat (with 10 beds).

References

{{Purba Bardhaman District Villages in Purba Bardhaman district