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Rupnarayan River

Uttar Bar

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Radhanagar

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Radhakantapur

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Palashpai

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Narajole

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Laoda

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Lachhipur

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Kotalpur

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Jayantipur

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Jalshara

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Iswarpur

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Gobindanagar

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Gangadaspur

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Dihi Baliharpur

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Chaipat

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Baikunthapur

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Alui

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Ajuria

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Birsingha

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Sonakhali

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Daspur

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Ramjibanpur

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Khirpai

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Kharar

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Ghatal

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Chandrakona

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Ramjibanpur is located at 22°50′N 87°37′E / 22.83°N 87.62°E / 22.83; 87.62, at an average elevation of 11 metres (36 feet).

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scholar, social reformer and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance, was born at Birsingha on 26 September 1820.

Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, has alluvial soils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once. It has a density of population of 1,099 per km, 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 the rest in the rural areas.

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.

As per 2011 Census of India, Ramjibanpur had a population of 19,611 of which 10,030 (51%) were males and 9,581 (49%) females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 2,109. The total number of literate persons in Ramjibanpur was 14,735 (84.19% of the population over 6 years).

As of 2001 India census, Ramjibanpur had a population of 17,363. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Ramjibanpur has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 78%, and female literacy is 66%. In Ramjibanpur, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

David J. McCutchion mentions:

• The Vishnu temple in Dayalbazar as a small flat roofed or chandni type, with terracotta decoration, built in 1833, measuring 14’ square’
• The Radhakanta temple in Natunhat, in the same category as the Vishnu temple, with terracotta decoration, built in 1829, measuring 14’ 10” x 15’.
• The Sridhara and Shiva temples (two attached temples), in the same category as the Vishnu temple, with extended façade for extra chambers, plain, measuring 24’ 3” x 3’.
• a pancha-ratna temple with ridged rekha turrets and porch on triple archway, of the standard West Bengal type with facades fully decorated.
• a pancha-ratna with ridged rekha turrets and single entrance with figures above the archway and around the façade.
• a West Bengal nava-ratna, with terracotta decoration, now fallen to ruin.

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  Damodar temple of Piri family
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  Damodar temple
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  Sridharlaljiu temple of Piri family
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  Buro Shiva temple, possibly built in 1866
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  Parbatinath temple: the old temple built in 1801-02 collapsed and this new temple was built

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