[6], In 1765, when East India Company acquired the diwani of Bardhaman, it was composed of Bardhaman, Bankura, Hooghly and a third of Birbhum. Great revolutionary Rashbehari Bose was born in village Subaldaha, Bardhaman district. Name of Sub-Division Name of Panchayat Samiti Name of Gram Panchayat Name of Pradhan 165 SADAR (S) JAMALPUR ABUJHATI-II Golam Nabi Sarkar 166 SADAR (S) MEMARI-I DALUIBAZAR-I Bhabani Banerjee 167 SADAR (S) MEMARI-I DALUIBAZAR-II Minati Patra 168 SADAR (S) MEMARI-I DEBIPUR Azizul Islam Munshi 169 SADAR (S) … The city is situated 1100 km from New Delhi and a little less than 100 km north-west of Kolkata on the Grand Trunk Road (National Highway 19) and Eastern Railway. A Promised Land by Barack Obama - I wanted to offer readers a sense of what it’s like to be the president of the United States; I wanted to pull the curtain back a bit and remind people that, for all its power and pomp, the presidency is still just a job and our federal government is a human enterprise like any other, and the men and women who work in the White House experience the same daily mix of satisfaction, disappointment, office friction, screw-ups, and small triumphs as the rest of their fellow citizens. Last edited on 25 November 2020, at 09:19, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Burdwan Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Maharajadhiraj Uday Chand Women's College, University Institute of Technology, Burdwan University, Burdwan CMS High School (Main), B. C. Road - West Bengal Board, "Burdwan Municipality - Area of Populations", "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 lakh and above", "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India", "Maps, Weather, and Airports for Barddhaman, India", "District Statistical Handbook 2014 Bardhaman", "C-1 Population By Religious Community - Bardhaman (M)", "Barddhaman, India Metro Area Population 1950-2020", "Census of India 2011: District Census Handbook, Barddhaman, Series-20, Part-XIIB", Official website of MGNREGS Cell, Bardhaman District, Bardhaman Utsav (Annual cultural programme of Bardhaman), Bardhaman darshan (Official tourism website), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bardhaman&oldid=990582540, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Presently, the administrative works are mostly done at the Rajbati (the palace of Barddhamana Maharaja) campus; on the other hand, academic activities centre on the Golapbag campus. Ajoy-barakar divide is a convex plateau, the average altitude being 150 m. The gradient is westerly to the west and to the east it is northerly toward At that time there were 22 thanas in Bardhaman district. Bardhaman (/ ˈ b ɑːr d ə ˌ m ə n /, Bengali: [ˈbɔrˌdʱoman]) is a city and a municipality in the state of West Bengal, India.It is the headquarters of Purba Bardhaman district, having become a district capital during the period of British rule. At that time Bardhaman was referred to as chakla, a change from the earlier pargana. The University of Burdwan was formally inaugurated on 15 June 1960 by Sukumar Sen, its first Vice-chancellor. At the time of the Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis in 1793, the chaklas were reduced in size, in order to make them more manageable, and districts were created. To the south, the alluvial plain merges with Damodar-kasain-Subarnarekha deltaic plains. Kalna, Nadanghat, Manteswar, Purbasthali and Katwa are assembly segments of Katwa (Lok Sabha constituency), which also contains two assembly constituencies from Hooghly district. Burdwan Division is one of the 5 administrative division in the Indian state of West Bengal.The headquarters of the Burdwan division is situated at Chinsurah while the largest city in this division is Asansol. CONTROL ROOM = 0342 - 2647491 / 2647492 PBX Purba Bardhaman Police Dist. Bardhaman also has a number of Bengali Christians, and although they are a minority, there are many churches in the city. The first epigraphic reference to the name of this place occurs in a 6th-century AD copper plate found in Mallasarul village under Galsi Police Station. List of Pradhan of Gram Panchayats District : Burdwan Sl No. 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. Khandaghosh, Raina, Jamalpur, Kalna, Bardhaman Uttar, Ausgram and Galsi constituencies will be reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) candidates. This, coupled with the initiative of the then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy, facilitated the establishment of this university.