Burdwan Tourism, West Bengal India
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Burdwan Fast Facts
- State: West Bengal
- District: Barddhaman
- Famous for/as: City
- Population: 347,016
- Religions: Hindu,Muslim
- Area: 56 Sq. km
- Altitude: 30 m
- Language: Bengali, Hindi, English
- Best Season: October to June
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- Local Transport: Bus, Taxi, Rikshaw
- Pincode: 713101
- STDCode: 91-0342
Burdwan, India Overview
Barddhaman also known as Burdwan is found in the state of West Bengal. It lies to the center of the state and is the seventh most populous district in India. The place has its importance since the medieval age and also during the British rule. The soil made it very popular even at the time of Gupta period. It was known as Sharifabad and was an important administrative center.
Today it is a very important place in the state of West Bengal and is full of natural resources. Barddhaman district is one of the most resourceful districts of the state of West Bengal. It is quite developed in terms of agriculture and technology. The eastern part comprises of a greater part of alluvial soil due to river Bhaghirathi and is great for agriculture. The western part, Asansol is rich in coal mines and other mineral resources. It is developed industrially and there are many large industries based on steel, cement and iron. Towns like Durgapur, Kulti and Murnur are quite significant. Power plants are located in Dishergarh and Durgapur towns.
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Burdwan, India History
During period of Jahangir this place was named Badh-e-dewan (district capital). The city owes its historical importance to being the headquarters of the Maharajas of Burdwan, the premier noblemen of lower Bengal, whose rent-roll was upwards of 300,000. Bardhaman Raj was founded in 1657 by Sangam Rai, of a Hindu Khatri family of Kotli in Lahore, Punjab, whose descendants served in turn the Mughal Emperors and the British government. The East Indian Railway from Howrah was opened in 1855. The great prosperity of the raj was due to the excellent management of Maharaja Mahtab Chand (died 1879), whose loyalty to the government especially during the "Hul" (Santhal rebellion) of 1855-56 and the Indian rebellion of 1857 was rewarded with the grant of a coat of arms in 1868 and the right to a personal salute of 13 guns in 1877. Maharaja Bijaychand Mahtab (born 1881), who succeeded his adoptive father in 1888, earned great distinction by the courage with which he risked his life to save that of Sir Andrew Fraser, the lieutenant-governor of Bengal, on the occasion of the attempt to assassinate him made by freedom fighters of Bengal on 7 November 1908.
Mahtab Chand Bahadur and later Bijoy Chand Mahtab struggled their best to make this region culturally, economically and ecologically healthier. The chief educational institution was the Burdwan Raj College, which was entirely supported out of the maharaja's estate. Sadhak Kamalakanta as composer of devotional songs and Kashiram Das as a poet and translator of the great Mahabharata were possibly the best products of such an endeavour. Pratap Chandra Roy was the publisher of the first translation in the world to translate Mahabharata in English (1883–1896).The society at large also continued to gain the fruits. We find, among others, the great rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and Kala-azar-famed U. N. Brahmachari as the relatively recent illustrious sons of this soil. The city became an important center of North-Indian classical music as well.