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Para is a village, with a police station, in the Para CD block in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in
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, India.


Geography


Location

Para is located at .


Area overview

Purulia district forms the lowest step of the
Chota Nagpur Plateau The Chota Nagpur Plateau () is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and th ...
. The general scenario is undulating land with scattered hills. Raghunathpur subdivision occupies the northern part of the district. 83.80% of the population of the subdivision lives in rural areas. However, there are pockets of urbanization and 16.20% of the population lives in urban areas. There are 14 census towns in the subdivision. It is presented in the map given alongside. There is a coal mining area around Parbelia and two thermal power plants are there – the 500 MW Santaldih Thermal Power Station and the 1200 MW Raghunathpur Thermal Power Station. The subdivision has a rich heritage of old temples, some of them belonging to the 11th century or earlier. The Banda Deul is a
monument of national importance A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...
. The comparatively more recent in historical terms, Panchkot Raj has interesting and intriguing remains in the area. 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 Para had a total population of 9,697 of which 5,031 (52%) were males and 4,666 (48%) were females. There were 1,158 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Para was 5,453 (63,86% of the population over 6 years).


Civic administration


Police station

Para police station, along with Santaldih police station, has jurisdiction over the Para CD block. The area covered is 270.59 km2 and the population covered is 200,621.


CD block HQ

The headquarters of the Para CD block are located at Para.


Education

Santaldih College was established in 2008 at Usir, PO Chatarmahul. Para Shib Narayan High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1916. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has a play ground and 2,500 books in the library.


Culture

There are three dilapidated temple Numerous statues related to Jainism and Hinduism have been found at Haraktor.


Rekha deul

David J. McCutchion says that the pre-dominant traditional architectural style for temples in the western areas of Bengal in the pre-Muslim period is the tall curvilinear rekha deul and it went on developing from the late 7th century or early 8th century to around the 12th century, increasing its complexity and height but retaining its basic features. Such temples had “curvilinear ''
shikhara ''Shikhara'' (IAST: '), a Sanskrit word translating literally to "mountain peak", refers to the rising tower in the Hindu temple architecture of North India, and also often used in Jain temples. A ''shikhara'' over the ''garbhagriha'' chamber ...
'' with '' chaitya'' mesh decoration, surmounted by a large '' amalaka'' and ''
kalasa Kalasa is a taluk located in Chikmagalur district in Karnataka. Kalasa is home to the Kalaseshwara Temple dedicated to Shiva. Kalasa lies 92 Kilometres West of Chickmagalur and is located on the banks of the Bhadra River. Kannada language is s ...
''
finial A finial () or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature. In architecture, it is a small decorative device, employed to emphasize the Apex (geometry), apex of a dome, spire, tower, roo ...
. Examples of such dilapidated deulas are still standing at Satdeula (in Bardhaman), Bahulara and Sonatapal (in Bankura) and Deulghat (in Purulia). On the brick deulas already mentioned here, plus Jatar (in 24 Parganas) and Para (in Purulia), “we find extensive and remarkably fine
stucco Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as a decorative coating for walls and ceilings, exterior walls, and as a sculptural and ...
work on carved brick”.


Para picture gallery

File:Deuls of Para in Purulia. 01.jpg, The stone and brick deuls at Para File:Deuls of Para in Purulia. 11.jpg, The stone deul File:View of stone temple, east of the village of Para, Manbhum district in 1872-73.jpg, The stone deul in 1872-73
(photograph by Joseph David Beglar) File:Deuls of Para in Purulia. 16.jpg, Sculptural panel in stone File:Brick Deul in Para village at Purulia district.jpg, The brick deul File:Deuls of Para in Purulia. 05.jpg, Brick deul wall File:Deuls of Para in Purulia. 08.jpg, Brick deul with corbelled arch File:Side view of third temple in Para at Purulia.jpg, Side view of the third temple


Healthcare

Para Block Primary Health Centre, with 30 beds, is a major government medical facility in the Para CD block.


References


External links

{{Temple towns in West Bengal Villages in Purulia district