Kharagpur

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      The moment we hear name of  the place Kharagpur, first and foremost thing that come in our mind is about IIT Kharagpur and railway station. It's quite obvious as  Kharagpur has been known as first Indian Institute of technology since May 1950. Also it has one of the largest railway workshops in India, and the third longest railway platform in the world (1072.5 m). It's an Industrial city located in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal.              Kharagpur junction                    IIT KHARAGPUR          Name of this place as Kharagpur was given by its 12th king Mallabhum Dynasty, kharga malla. It's said that initially it was part of Hijli kingdom and ruled by oriya rulers under Gajapati kings of Odisha.       In 16th century this place was said to be a small village surrounded by a dense forest. Only habitant based over there was Hijli which was a small island village situated on the banks of the Rasalpur river in the delta of bay of Bengal. Later in the yea
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Chandannagar-a crescent moon

Chandannagar


     The moment we hear about Chandannagar first thing that comes in our mind is all about light decoratives done during puja. This place comes under hoogly district located near western bank of hoogly river. It's also called as French colony as this place was said to be first created by french people by occupying small localities in that area. 

             Name of this place is derived from the shape of the bank of the river Hooghly which is bent like a half-moon (in Bengali, Chand means moon and Nagar implies city), so originally it was chander nagar. Also it's said that there is famous temple of goddess "chandi" besides whom this place was named. According to some localites this place was the major hub of  trade of Sandal. 

     It's believed in the year 1688 french east india company deslandes paid 40,000 coins to Mughal subahdar in order to build factories .

  In the year 1730 Joseph François Dupleix was appointed as governor of that city and under his supervision number of brick houses were built. Soon by 1756 Chandannagar became the main centre for European commerce. The city had thriving centres of trade involving opium, indigo, silk, rice, rope, sugar, etc. The fine clothes of Chandannagar were exported to Europe.

      In the year 1756 there was  war took place between France and Great Britain post which British navy captured Chandannagar on 23rd March 1757. City was later returned to France in the year 1816. India became independent from Britain in the year 1947. Post which the French  governor found that most of the Chandannagar population wants to be part of india, henceforth in May 1950 they  allowed indian government to take control over entire Chandannagar. 

      Chandannagar consisted of mainly three parts Khalisani (west), Gondalpara (south) and Boro (north). There are about 30 localities (para) and more than 100 sub-localities. Of them, some are Gondalpara, Nutan Telighat, Barasat, Tematha, Hatkhola, Daibokpara, Padripara, Lalbagan, Barabazar, Bagbazar, Fatokgora, Khalisani, Nabagram, Palpara, Urdibazar, Luxmigunj, Panchanantala, Taldanga, Haridradanga etc. Bajra, Bandhagram etc. are some of the village-like areas near the borders of the city.

        Jagaddhatri Puja is a major socio-cultural event in this region, attracting massive crowds from all over the state of West Bengal.


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