Serampore (also called ''Serampur'', ''Srirampur'', ''Srirampore'', ''Shreerampur'', ''Shreerampore'', ''Shrirampur'' or ''Shrirampore'') is a city of
Hooghly district
Hooghly district () is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal. It can alternatively be spelt ''Hoogli'' or ''Hugli''. The district is named after the Hooghly River.
The headquarters of the district are at Hooghly-Chinsura (''C ...
in the
Indian state
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions.
History
Pre-indepen ...
of
West Bengal
West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
. It is the headquarter of the
Srirampore subdivision
Srirampore subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Overview
Srirampore subdivision is the most urbanised, and the one with the highest density of population, of all the subdivisio ...
. It is a part of the area covered by
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is the statutory planning and development authority for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) in the state of West Bengal, India. The organisation used to be known as Calcutta Metropolitan Developm ...
(KMDA) and
Greater Kolkata. It is a pre-colonial city on the west bank of the
Hooghly River
The Bhagirathi Hooghly River (Anglicized alternatively spelled ''Hoogli'' or ''Hugli'') or the 'Bhāgirathi-Hooghly', called the Ganga or the Kati-Ganga in mythological texts, is the eastern distributary of the Ganges River in West Bengal, Indi ...
. It was part of
Danish India
Danish India () was the name given to the colonies of Denmark (Denmark–Norway before 1814) in the Indian subcontinent, forming part of the Danish colonial empire. Denmark–Norway held colonial possessions in India for more than 200 years, i ...
under the name ''Frederiknagore'' from 1755 to 1845.
Geography
Location
Serampore is located at .
The area consists of flat
alluvial
Alluvium (from Latin ''alluvius'', from ''alluere'' 'to wash against') is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. Alluv ...
plains, that form a part of the
Gangetic Delta. This belt is highly industrialised.
Police stations
Serampore police station has jurisdiction over Serampore and
Baidyabati
Baidyabati is a city and a municipality of Hooghly district in the State of West Bengal in India. It is under Serampore police station of Srirampore subdivision. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMD ...
Municipal areas, and parts of
Sreerampur Uttarpara
Sreerampur Uttarpara is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview
The Sreerampur Uttarpara CD Block is part of the Hooghly Flats, ...
CD Block. Serampore Women police station has been set up.
Urbanisation
Srirampore subdivision is the most urbanized of the subdivisions in Hooghly district. 73.13% of the population in the subdivision is urban and 26.88% is rural. The subdivision has 6 municipalities and 34 census towns. The municipalities are:
Dankuni Municipality
To the Dankuni Municipality is the civic body that governs Dankuni and its surrounding areas in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India.
Geography
Dankuni Municipality covers an area of 19.5 sq km and has a total populat ...
,
Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality
Uttarpara Kotrung Municipality is the civic body that governs Uttarpara Kotrung and its surrounding areas (Bhadrakali, Hooghly, Bhadrakali and Hind Motor) in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. It's the oldest municip ...
,
Konnagar Municipality
Konnagar Municipality is the civic body that governs Konnagar and its surrounding areas in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India.
History
Konnagar Municipality was established in 1944. Sib Chandra Deb contributed tirel ...
,
Rishra Municipality
Rishra Municipality is the civic body that governs Rishra and its surrounding areas in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India.
History
Rishra municipality was established in 1944.
The earliest mention of Rishra is found ...
,
Serampore Municipality
Serampore Municipality is the civic body that governs Serampore and its surrounding areas (Mahesh, Serampore, Mahesh, Tin Bazar, Battala and partly Chatra, Serampore, Chatra) in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India.
H ...
and
Baidyabati Municipality
Baidyabati Municipality is the civic body that governs Baidyabati and its surrounding areas (Sheoraphuli and partly Chatra) in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India.
History
Baidyabati Municipality was established in 1 ...
. Amongst the CD Blocks in the subdivision, Uttarapara Serampore (census towns shown in the map alongside) had 76% urban population, Chanditala I 42%, Chanditala II 69% and Jangipara 7% (census towns in the last 3 CD Blocks are shown in a separate map).
All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Climate
Demographics
According to an India
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
, Serampore had a population of 181,842 in 2011. Males constituted 51.55% of the population and females 48.45%. It had an average literacy rate of 88.73%, higher than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy was 92.75% and female literacy 87.05%; 7% of the population was under 6 years of age.
Kolkata Urban Agglomeration
The following Municipalities and Census Towns in Hooghly district were part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in 2011 census:
Bansberia
Bansberia is a city and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is about away from Kolkata, at the western end of the Iswar Gupta Setu ( Kalyani-Bansberia) Bridge. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Me ...
(M),
Hugli-Chinsurah
Hugli-Chuchura or Hooghly-Chinsurah is a city and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the bank of Hooghly River, 35 km north of Kolkata. It is located in the district of Hooghly and is home t ...
(M), Bara Khejuria (
Out Growth),
Shankhanagar
Shankhanagar is a census town in Chinsurah Mogra CD Block in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Shankhanagar is located at .
The area ...
(CT),
Amodghata
Amodghata is a census town in Chinsurah Mogra CD Block in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Amodghata is located at .
The area is co ...
(CT),
Chak Bansberia
Chak Bansberia is a census town in Chinsurah Mogra CD Block in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Chak Bansberia is located at .
The ...
(CT),
Naldanga (CT),
Kodalia
Kodalia is a census town in Chinsurah Mogra CD Block in Chinsurah subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Kodalia is located at .
The area is comp ...
(CT),
Kulihanda (CT),
Simla
Shimla (; ; also known as Simla, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared as the summer capital of British India. After independence, the ...
(CT),
Dharmapur (CT),
Bhadreswar (M),
Champdani
Champdani is a city and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is under Bhadreswar police station in Chandannagore subdivision. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority ( ...
(M),
Chandannagar
Chandannagar french: Chandernagor ), also known by its former name Chandernagore and French name Chandernagor, is a city in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is headquarter of the Chandannagore subdivision and is part ...
(M Corp.),
Baidyabati
Baidyabati is a city and a municipality of Hooghly district in the State of West Bengal in India. It is under Serampore police station of Srirampore subdivision. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMD ...
(M), Serampore (M),
Rishra
Rishra is a city and a municipality in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
History
The origin of Rishra situate ...
(M),
Rishra
Rishra is a city and a municipality in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
History
The origin of Rishra situate ...
(CT),
Bamunari
Bamunari is a census town of Sreerampur Uttarpara CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Bamunari is located at .
Rishra ...
(CT),
Dakshin Rajyadharpur
Dakshin Rajyadharpur is a census town in Sreerampur Uttarpara CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Dakshin Rajyadharpur ...
(CT),
Nabagram Colony
Nabagram is a census town in Sreerampur Uttarpara CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Nabagram Colony is located at . ...
(CT),
Konnagar
Konnagar is a town and a municipality of Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal in India. Konnagar has a railway station that connect with Howrah. It is under Uttarpara police station in Serampore subdivision. It is a part of the area co ...
(M),
Uttarpara Kotrung (M),
Raghunathpur (PS-Dankuni)
Raghunathpur is a census town in Sreerampur Uttarpara CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is close to Dankuni and also a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Ra ...
(CT),
Kanaipur
Kanaipur is a census town in Sreerampur Uttarpara CD Block in Srirampore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration.
Geography
Location
Kanaipur is located at .
Rishra (C ...
(CT) and
Keota (CT).
Education
*
Serampore College
, founders = William Ward, William Carey, & Joshua Marshman
, religious_affiliation = Baptist
, rector =
, location = 8, William Carey RoadSerampore – 712201West Bengal, India
, established =
, principal = Vansanglura Va ...
*Pearl Rosary School - Mahesh (
WBBSE
The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education is the West Bengal state government administered autonomous examining authority for the Standard 10 examination (or secondary school level examination) of West Bengal, India. It has come into force ...
,
WBCHSE
The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) came into existence in 1975. It is an autonomous examining authority, which is responsible for conducting examinations for standard XII for both government and private schools aff ...
)
*
Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
*
Serampore Union Institution
Serampore Union Institution is a Bengali medium boys' school in India, accredited as an "A-Grade Excellent Educational Institution" by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for its brilliant and enviable academic performance. ...
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Serampore Girls' College
Serampore Girl's College, established in 1981, is a women's college in Serampore, in Hooghly district. It offers undergraduate courses in science and arts. It is affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It is also the study center for postgradu ...
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Mahesh Sri Ramkrishna Ashram Vidyalaya (Higher Secondary)
Mahesh Sri Ramkrishna Ashram Vidyalaya (Higher Secondary) is an educational institution in Hooghly District of West Bengal, India. Swami Premghanananda founded the institute, post-independence of our country at Rishra. The institution got the a ...
* Serampore Girl's High School (Akna Girl's High School)
*
Chatra Nandalal Institution
Chatra Nandalal Institution, in Serampore, was established in 1874 in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India. It is situated on the bank of the Hooghly River and having a river side view of the cantonment town of Barrackpore.
Academic affiliatio ...
* Serampore Mission Girls High School
* Malina Lahiri Boy's Academy
* Holy Home School
* West Point Academy
* Gospel Home school
*
* Pearl Rosary school (West Chatra)
* Kidzee
* Bangla High School
* Ballavpur High School
* Mahesh high School
* Mahesh Banga Vidyalaya
*
Ramesh Chandra Girl's High School
* Rajyadharpur Netaji Uchcha Balika Vidyalaya
* Parameshwari Girl's High School
* Nabagram K D Paul Vidyalaya
* Chatra Bani Balika Vidyalaya
* Anjuman.n.c.l.project School
* Aurobindo N.c.l.p School
* Bharati Balika Pry. School
* Fatema Girls Jr. High School
* Gopinath Saha Pry. School
* Mission Girls High School
* Nayabasti Sree Shiva Jr High School
* Saraswati.n.c.l.p Special School
* Viswanath Vidyamandir
* Prabash Nagar G.s.f.p.
* Mallickpara Municipal Free Pry
See also
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Rathayatra of Mahesh
The Rathayatra of Mahesh ( bn, মাহেশের রথযাত্রা) is the second oldest chariot festival or Rath Yatra in India (after '' Rath Yatra of Puri'') and oldest in Bengal, having been celebrated since 1396. It is held in Ma ...
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Srerampur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Serampore (previously known as Serampore-26 and changed to Srerampur-27 in the 2009 election) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Serampore in West Bengal. Five assembly segments of the ...
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Sreerampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Sreerampur Assembly constituency (previously called 180,Serampore and changed to 186,Sreerampur for the 2011 election onwards) is an Vidhan Sabha, assembly constituency in Hooghly district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of W ...
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Serampore College
, founders = William Ward, William Carey, & Joshua Marshman
, religious_affiliation = Baptist
, rector =
, location = 8, William Carey RoadSerampore – 712201West Bengal, India
, established =
, principal = Vansanglura Va ...
*
Senate of Serampore College (University)
The Senate of Serampore College (University) is located in Serampore in West Bengal, India. Serampore was granted the status of university in 1829, making it India's first institution to have the status of a university.Government of India, Mini ...
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Serampore Town Railway Station
Shrirampur Railway Station is one of the busiest railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line located in the Hooghly district, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Serampore city.
History
The first train of the Eastern Railway ...
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Srirampore subdivision
Srirampore subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Overview
Srirampore subdivision is the most urbanised, and the one with the highest density of population, of all the subdivisio ...
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Serampore Mission Press
The Serampur Mission Press was a book and newspaper publisher that operated in Serampur, Danish India, from 1800 to 1837.
The Press was founded by William Carey, William Ward, and other British Baptist missionaries at the Serampur Mission. It b ...
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Hannah Marshman
Hannah Marshman (13 May 1767 – 5 March 1847) was an English missionary who founded a school at Serampore, India.
She was the daughter of John Shepherd, a farmer, and his wife Rachel, and the granddaughter of John Clark, pastor of the Baptist ...
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William Carey
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Joshua Marshman
Joshua Marshman (20 April 1768 – 6 December 1837) was a British Christian missionary in Bengal, India. His mission involved social reforms and intellectual debates with educated Hindus such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
Origins
Joshua Marshman was b ...
*
Willam Ward
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Serampore Trio
The Serampore Trio was the name given to three pioneering English missionaries, namely William Carey (1761-1834), Joshua Marshman, (1768-1837), and William Ward (1769-1823). William Carey arrived in Bengal in 1793 and Marshman and Ward arrived ...
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Sheoraphuli Raj Debuttar Estate
The Sheoraphuli Raj Debuttar Estate or Sheoraphuli Rajbari was part of the Zamindari of the Sheoraphuli Raj, a branch of the erstwhile Patuli Rajbansha which occupies a very high place in the peerage of Bengal. The Calcutta Review for 1845 stat ...
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Sheoraphuli
Sheoraphuli (also called Seoraphuli) is a neighbourhood of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is on West side of river hooghly. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
Geograp ...
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Sheoraphuli railway station
Sheoraphuli Junction is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line and is located in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Sheoraphuli area & northern part of the Serampore City. The Sheorap ...
References
External links
JNNURM of West BengalRotary Club of Serampore
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Cities and towns in Hooghly district
Danish India
Former Danish colonies
Neighbourhoods in Kolkata
Kolkata Metropolitan Area