Bardhaman,officially Bardhaman Sadar,is a city and 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. Burdwan,an alternative name for the city,has remained in use since then.
Durgapur is a major industrial city and a planned tier-II urban agglomeration in the Indian state of West Bengal. Located in Paschim Bardhaman district,it is the third most important city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal after Kolkata and Siliguri and the most important industrial hub of West Bengal. It was planned by two American architects,Joseph Allen Stein and Benjamin Polk in 1955. Durgapur is the only city in eastern India to have an operational dry dock. Durgapur has been nicknamed the 'Ruhr of India'.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay;12 September 1894 –1 November 1950) was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known works are the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali,Aparajito (Undefeated),Chander Pahar and Aranyak.
Kanika Banerjee was an Bengali Rabindra Sangeet singer.
Education in West Bengal is provided by both the public sector as well as the private sector. The modern education system was developed by the British missionaries and the Indian social reformists. West Bengal has many institutes of higher education like –Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,Marine Engineering and Research Institute,Jadavpur University,Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology,Shibpur,Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Kolkata,National Institute of Technology,Durgapur,Indian Institute of Information Technology,Kalyani,Indian Statistical Institute,West Bengal University of Health Sciences,University of North Bengal and University of Calcutta.
Suri Vidyasagar College,established in 1942,is a government affiliated college located at Suri in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. It is affiliated to University of Burdwan and teaches arts,science and commerce.
Krishna Mohan Banerjee was a 19th-century Indian thinker who attempted to rethink Hindu philosophy,religion and ethics in response to the stimulus of Christian ideas. He himself became a Christian,and was the first president of the Bengal Christian Association,which was administered and financed by Indians. He was a prominent member of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio's (1808–1831) Young Bengal group,educationist,linguist and Christian missionary.
Rakhal Das Banerji,also Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay,was an Indian archaeologist and an officer of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). In 1919,he became the second ASI officer deputed to survey the site of Mohenjo-daro and returned there in the 1922-23 season. He was the first person to propose the remote antiquity of the site—which he did in a letter to Marshall in 1923—and in effect of the Harappan culture. After leaving the ASI,he held the Manindra Chandra Nandy professorship of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Banaras Hindu University from 1928 until his premature death in 1930.
Channa is a village located in Galsi II CD Block in Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal,India. It is famous for the ashram of Niralamba Swami,a famous saint.
Jatindra Nath Banerjee was one of two great Indian nationalists and freedom fighters –along with Aurobindo Ghosh –who dramatically rose to prominence between 1871 and 1910.
Christianity in West Bengal,India,is a minority religion. According to the 2011 census of India,there were 658,618 Christians in West Bengal,or 0.72% of the population. Although Mother Teresa worked in Kolkata (Calcutta),Christianity is a minority religion in Kolkata as well. West Bengal has the highest number of Bengali Christians. Bengali Christians have been established since the 16th century with the advent of the Portuguese in Bengal. Later in the 19th and 20th centuries,many upper-class Bengalis converted to Christianity during the Bengali Renaissance under British rule,including Krishna Mohan Banerjee,Michael Madhusudan Dutt,Anil Kumar Gain,and Gnanendramohan Tagore. Aurobindo Nath Mukherjee was the first Indian to be Anglican Bishop of Calcutta.
Bankura Christian College,established in 1903,is the oldest college in Bankura district in India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts and sciences. It is affiliated with the Bankura University.
Syamsundar College,established in 1948,is the general degree college in Shyamsundar,Purba Bardhaman district. It offers undergraduate courses in arts,commerce and sciences. It is affiliated to The University of Burdwan.
Shasipada Banerjee was a teacher,social worker and leader of the Brahmo Samaj who is remembered as a champion of women's rights and education and as one of the earliest workers for labour welfare in India. He was the founder of several girls' schools,a widow's home,temperance societies,a workers' organisation and the editor of the journal Bharat Sramajibi.
Bankura University is a public state university in Bankura,West Bengal,India. It was established by an Act of the West Bengal legislature notified in the Kolkata Gazette. It offers courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Shyamsundar is a village in Raina I CD block in Bardhaman Sadar South subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal,India.
Purba Bardhaman district is in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district of Purba Bardhaman.
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is an Indian historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Bandyopadhyay is known for his research on the Dalit caste of Bengal.
