Kshirgram

Kshirgram Khirogram
Village
Kshirgram Location in West Bengal, India Show map of West Bengal Kshirgram Kshirgram (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°30′51″N88°01′38″E / 23.5141°N 88.0273°E / 23.5141; 88.0273
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Population  (2011)
• Total	2,474
Languages
• Official	Bengali, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
ISO 3166 code	IN-WB
Lok Sabha constituency	Bolpur
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Mangalkot
Website	purbabardhaman.gov.in

Kshirgram (also written as Khirogram) is a village in Mongalkote CD block in Katwa subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Geography

8km
5miles

Ajay River

Hooghly River

Jajigram

H

Kshirgram

H

Bankapasi

C

Karui

H

Sribati

H

Kogram

H

Uddharanpur

H

Srikhanda

R

Singot

R

Chandrapur

R

Gangatikuri

R

Kandra

R

Nutanhat

R

Ketugram

R

Mongalkote

R

Panuhat

CT

Dainhat

M

Katwa

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Cities and towns in the Katwa subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district
M: municipal city/ town, CT: census town, R: rural/ urban centre, H: historical place/ religious and/ or cultural centre, C: Craft centre.
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

Location

Kshirgram is located at 23°30′51″N88°01′38″E / 23.5141°N 88.0273°E / 23.5141; 88.0273 .

Urbanisation

88.44% of the population of Katwa subdivision live in the rural areas. Only 11.56% of the population live in the urban areas. ^[1] The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

As per the 2011 Census of India, Kshirgram had a total population of 2,474 of which 1,260 (51%) were males and 1,214 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 242. The total number of literates in Kshirgram was 1,651 (73.97% of the population over 6 years). ^[2]

Culture

Kshirgram is a Shaktipeeth/satipith and is famous for its jogadya and Shiva temples. ^[3]

It is said that a piece of the large toe of the right leg of Sati fell at Kshirgram and it is considered one of the fifty one shakti peethas. At Kshirgram the goddess is known as jogadya. The temple of Kshireswar is a little away from Kshirdighi. ^[4]

The goddess Yogadya is worshipped at Kshirgram on Vaisakha sankranti and a big fair is organised. It is said that earlier there was no idol of the goddess at Kshirgram but both the puja and the fair were there. The goddess in an ugra-chandi form appeared in a dream to Haridutta, the king of Kshirgram and he got a stone image of the ten-armed Singhabahini goddess made and established it.This temple also houses another murti of goddess singhabahini which is considered to be older than that of kali and dwapara yuga approximately 600 years old , the ancient idol of devi jogadya which was earlier the kuldevi of mahiravana and was named as "Paatal Bhairavi" was bought here, the story goes back to ramayana when raavana's one of the dynasts named Mahiravana deliberately abducted Rama and Lakshmana upon ravana's orders and decided to human sacrifice them before goddess paatala bhairavi bhadrakali(Jogadya) in order to attain her siddhi , hanumanji deliberately sneaked into his palace and slayed him using maa jogadya's sword before he could've sacrificed rama and lakshmana and thereafter he left the paatala with rama , lakshmana and the vigraha of devi paatala bhairavi bhadrakali and immersed it at the kshirdighi which later became the 'ishta devi' of kshirgram. The goddess is worshipped by the Ugra Kshatriyas in places other than Kshirgram, a day earlier. ^[4]

When the idol of goddess Yogadya was once found broken, Nabin Bhaskar of Dainhat made an exact duplicate and the cost was borne by the Maharaja of Bardhaman. ^[5]

Transport

It is located about 23.2 kilometres (14.4 mi) from Katwa on the Katwa– Burdwan road.

Kshirgram is about 3 miles from the station at Kaichor on the Bardhaman-Katwa line. ^[4]

Healthcare

There is a primary health centre at Khirogram (with 2 beds). ^[6]

References

1. "District Statistical Handbook 2014 Bardhaman". Table 2.2. Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
2. "C.D. Block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA)". 2011 census: West Bengal – District-wise CD Blocks. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
3. "Purba Bardhaman district". Tourism. District Administration. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
4. Ghosh, Binoy, Paschim Banger Sanskriti, (in Bengali), part I, 1976 edition, page 185-187, Prakash Bhaban
5. Chattopadhyay, Akkori, Bardhaman Jelar Itihas O Lok Sanskriti (History and Folk lore of Bardhaman District.), (in Bengali), Vol II, page 483, Radical Impression. ISBN   81-85459-36-3
6. "Health & Family Welfare Department". Health Statistics. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 19 January 2019.