Jalshara
Jalsara | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Jalsara Location in West Bengal, India  Jalsara Jalsara (India) | |
| Coordinates:22°40′54″N87°39′51″E/ 22.681634°N 87.664091°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Medinipur |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,183 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali,English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30(IST) |
| PIN | 721212 |
| Telephone/STDcode | 03225 |
| Lok Sabhaconstituency | Ghatal |
| Vidhan Sabhaconstituency | Ghatal |
| Website | paschimmedinipur |
Jalsarais a village in theGhatalCD blockin theGhatal subdivisionof thePaschim Medinipur districtin the state ofWest Bengal,India.
Geography
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5miles
M: municipal city/ town, R: rural/ urban centre, H: historical/ religious centre
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
Area overview
[edit]Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,scholar, social reformer and a key figure of theBengal Renaissance,was born atBirsinghaon 26 September 1820.[1][2]
Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, hasalluvialsoils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once.[3]It has a density of population of 1,099 per km2,but being a small subdivision only a little over a fifth of the people in the district reside in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas.[4]
Note: 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
[edit]According to the2011 Census of India,Jalsara had a total population of 2,183, of which 1,118 (51%) were males and 1,065 (49%) were females. There were 252 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Jalshhara was 1,378 (71.36% of the population over 6 years).[5]
Education
[edit]Jalsara R.K.High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1960. The school has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has a library with 135 books, 9 computers and a playground.[6]
Culture
[edit]David J. McCutchionmentions the Siva temple at Jalsara as a high-toweredbaro-chalawithrathaprojections. It is largely plain and measures 13’ square.[7]
Jalsara picture gallery
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Baro-chala Buro Shiva temple -
Buro Shiva temple
References
[edit]- ^Murshid, Ghulam."Vidyasagar, Pundit Iswar Chandra".Banglapedia.Retrieved24 July2016.
- ^"Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar".whereincity. Archived fromthe originalon 25 December 2018.Retrieved24 July2016.
- ^"District Human Development Report Paschim Medinipur, 2011".Department of Planning and Statistics, Government of West Bengal. pp. 27–28.Retrieved10 September2020.
- ^"District Statistical Handbook Paschim Medinipur, 2013".Table 2.2, 2.4 (a).Department of Planning and Statistics.Retrieved10 September2020.
- ^"CD block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA)".West Bengal – District-wise CD blocks.Registrar General and Census, India.Retrieved25 August2020.
- ^"Jalshar R.K. High School U. Pry".Schools.org.Retrieved25 August2020.
- ^McCutchion, David J.,Late Mediaeval Temples of Bengal,first published 1972, reprinted 2017, page 40. The Asiatic Society, Kolkata,ISBN978-93-81574-65-2
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