Berhampore and Related Topics

Murshidabad district

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District of in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Baharampur city is the headquarters of the district.

West Bengal

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West Bengal (, Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr.

Coin of the King Shashanka, who created the first separate political entity in Bengal, called the Gauda Kingdom

The Pala Empire was an imperial power during the Late Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.

Firoz Minar at Gauḍa was built during the Bengal Sultanate.

Subhas Chandra Bose, he was a leading freedom fighter of India

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.

Many areas remain flooded during the heavy rains brought by a monsoon.

A hut in a village in the Hooghly district

The Grand Hotel in Kolkata. Tourism, especially from Bangladesh, is an important part of West Bengal's economy.

Freshly sown saplings of rice in a paddy; in the background are stacks of jute sticks.

Satyajit Ray, a pioneer in Bengali cinema along with Ravi Sankar.

Panchchura Temple in Bishnupur, one of the older examples of the terracotta arts of India.

Jamdani Sari of Bangladesh is very popular in West Bengal.

Salt Lake Stadium / Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is a hub for flights to and from Bangladesh, East Asia, Nepal, Bhutan and north-east India.

Kolkata Metro, India's first metro rail system

University of Calcutta, the oldest public university of India.

The front entrance to the academic block of NUJS, Kolkata.

Prajna Bhavan, housing the School of Mathematical Sciences and School of RKMVU.

Other larger cities and towns in West Bengal are: Durgapur, Howrah, Bardhaman, Baharampur, Jalpaiguri, Kharagpur and Chandannagar.

Hooghly River

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Eastern distributary of the Ganges River in West Bengal, India, rising close to Giria in Murshidabad.

Sunset at River Hooghly, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

A ferry operating between Howrah and Kolkata with Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) in background

Panoramic view of Kolkata from Howrah with Second Hooghly Bridge

Ganga Arati on the banks of the Hooghly river, Howrah

The Hooghly River from the Harvest Fields of Bengal, c. 1905

Boats and men on the banks of the Hooghly river, 1915

The Floatel in Kolkata located on the river

The Prinsep Ghat which is located on the bank of the Hooghly River

Char on the river at Bansberia, Hooghly district

Boats on the river at Shimurali, Nadia district

The river behind Hazarduari Palace in Murshidabad district

The city of Kolkata lies along the banks of the Hooghly

Boat seen from the bank of the Hoogly River at Kolkata

The Bhagirathi then flows south past Jiaganj Azimganj, Murshidabad, and Baharampur.

Berhampore (community development block)

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Community development block that forms an administrative division in the Berhampore subdivision of Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Baharampur and Daulatabad police stations serve this block.

Ganges

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Trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh.

Devprayag, confluence of Alaknanda (right) and Bhagirathi (left), and beginning of the Ganges proper.

The Himalayan headwaters of the Ganges River in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.

The Gandhi Setu Bridge across the Ganges in Patna, Bihar

A sailboat on the main distributory of the Ganges in Bangladesh, the Padma river.

The Ganges delta in a 2020 satellite image.

A 1908 map showing the course of the Ganges and its tributaries.

The River Ganges at Kolkata, with Howrah Bridge in the background

Hardinge Bridge, Bangladesh, crosses the Ganges-Padma River. It is one of the key sites for measuring streamflow and discharge on the lower Ganges.

Chromolithograph, Indian woman floating lamps on the Ganges, by William Simpson, 1867

Descent of Ganga, painting by Raja Ravi Varma c. 1910

Preparations for cremations on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi], 1903. The dead are being bathed, wrapped in cloth, and covered with wood. The photograph has a caption, "Who dies in the waters of the Ganges obtains heaven."]

Women and children at a bathing ghat on the Ganges in Banares (Varanasi), 1885.

Shiva, as Gangadhara, bearing the Descent of the Ganges, as the goddess Parvati, the sage Bhagiratha, and the bull Nandi look on (circa 1740).

A procession of Akharas marching over a makeshift bridge over the Ganges River. Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, 2001.

Head works of the Ganges canal in Haridwar (1860). Photograph by Samuel Bourne.

The Ganges Canal highlighted in red stretching between its headworks off the Ganges River in Haridwar and its confluences with the Jumna (Yamuna) River in Etawah and with the Ganges in Cawnpore (now Kanpur).

A girl selling plastic containers in Haridwar for carrying Ganges water.

The catla (Catla catla) is one of the Indian carp species that support major fisheries in the Ganges

The threatened gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is a large fish-eating crocodilian that is harmless to humans

The Gangetic dolphin in a sketch by Whymper and P. Smit, 1894.

People bathing and washing clothes in the Ganges in Varanasi.

It has been important historically, with many former provincial or imperial capitals such as Pataliputra, Kannauj, Kara, Munger, Kashi, Patna, Hajipur, Delhi, Bhagalpur, Murshidabad, Baharampur, Kampilya, and Kolkata located on its banks or the banks of tributaries and connected waterways.

Cossimbazar

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Sub-urban area of Berhampore City in the Berhampore CD block in the Berhampore subdivision in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Cossimbazar and Murshidabad in the mid-18th century

The headquarters of Murshidabad district, Berhampore, is in this area.

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

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Indian politician serving as the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha and the Member of Parliament from Berhampore.

Chowdhury taking charge as the Minister of State for Railways, in New Delhi on 29 October 2012.

Chowdhury was born on 2 April 1956 to Niranjan and Saroja Bala Chowdhury at Berhampore in Murshidabad district, West Bengal.

Khagra

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Khagra is a locality of Baharampur in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Map of Darjeeling district (1838) during regime of Rajah of Sikkim

Siliguri

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Major city in West Bengal that forms "Twin Cities" with the neighboring district capital of Jalpaiguri.

Map of Darjeeling district (1876) after being considered a "regulated area" by the British government

Toy train passing through Siliguri after independence, in 1955

Kanchenjunga, taken from Siliguri in October 2020

Wild Indian elephant at Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary

Aircraft at Bagdogra International Airport

Super Speciality Block, North Bengal Medical College

Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus: Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus is the main bus terminus serves as bus depot for both Government and private bus service which operated by NBSTC. It connects cities of Sikkim, Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Meghalaya etc. and all other districts and cities in West Bengal like Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Malda, Balurghat, Raiganj, Berhampore, Kolkata, Asansol, Suri etc.