West Medinipur-1

West Medinipur

Medinipur is one of the most important districts of West Bengal in India. Earlier it was one single big district. In the long run,after many years, this district was divided into two parts, East Medinipur and West Medinipur. This division was done for smooth functioning of administrative works.

This district is important as the first swadeshi self-declared government was setup at Tamluk at that time when entire India was under the rule of British Government. The name of that swadeshi government was Tamralipta government. Medinipur is also Bengal-Orissa border district.

Following places of West Medinipur are famous for the visit;

Khirpai- In earlier, i.e. in 18th and also in 19th centuries, this town was famous as trading center. Cotton and handicrafts of this area were very famous at that time and these items were exported to foreign countries. Khirpai was also famous for indigo plantations by the British businessmen. They forcibly compelled Indian farmers to cultivate this indigo, because this kind of indigo plantation damage the soil and after cultivation of indigo, the particular land are not eligible for cultivation of any other crops like rice. Now this town has not enough impotency in trading with such cotton and crafts. It is small town and its area is now 12 sqrs. Kilometers approximately and number of dwellers is not much. The main attraction of this place is the Pancharatna temple, this temple is very ancient. The architectural of this temple are very memorable and the images of Krishnalila, Dasavatars of Lord Krishna and also the battle between Ram and Ravana, all these ideas were collected from famous Hindu epics like Ramayana, Mahavarat.Many other famous ancient temples are also existing here and these are also the center of attraction of tourists of whole over the world.

Khargeswar Shiv Mandir- this temple was built in the year of 1861. This Khargeswar Shiv Mandir is located on the north side of Radhamadhab Mandir. This Shiv Mandir is made of Tin roof of atchala style. Atchala means assembling of eight tin roofs and designed as hut.

Umapati Shiv Mandir- This mandir (temple) is also built as atchala style and in the century 19th, this temple was built. The image of Sun is set-up here. This image most probably were made of black stone and the age of 10th or 11th century.

Dalan Mandir- This temple was most probably built in 1746 and this oldest temple of Khirpai. This temple is devoted to Singhabhini (Goddess Durga).

Kankrajhor- This place is near by the north-west part of Jhargram sub-division. This place is mostly covered with various trees like Sal, Teak, Mahua, Kendua, etc. some animals like deer, bear, rabbits, etc. are commonly seen here. The famous temple of goddess Kali is seen here. It is also myth that Kapalkundala, the famous novel by the author Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was written here. This place Kankrajhor is famous for its full moonlight view. In winter and spring seasons, the beauty of this place in full moon light is really amazing and memorable.

Many other places are in west-Medinipur to be visit. I will write in brief about those places in my coming episode of the part of this blog.