Uddharanpur

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Uddharanpur
Village
Uddharanpur Ghat
Uddharanpur Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Uddharanpur Uddharanpur (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°41′08″N 88°08′21″E / 23.685667°N 88.1391889°E / 23.685667; 88.1391889
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Subdistrict	Ketugram II
Gram Panchayet	Sitahati
Population  (2011)
• Total	3,437
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
Pincode	713123 (Sankhai)[citation needed]
Former name	Radhekeshtapur
Police station	Ketugram
Website	purbabardhaman.gov.in

Uddharanpur is a village in Ketugram II CD block in Katwa subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in West Bengal, India. The village named after the Hindu saint Uddharan Dutta Thakura who was the famous Zamindar and working for the (Nairaja of Naihati old Nabahatta) in Naihati and later a close associate of Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.^[1][2]

8km
5miles

Ajay River

Hooghly River

Jajigram

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Kshirgram

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Bankapasi

C

Karui

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Sribati

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Kogram

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Uddharanpur

H

Srikhanda

R

Singot

R

Chandrapur

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Gangatikuri

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Kandra

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Nutanhat

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Ketugram

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Mongalkote

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Panuhat

CT

Dainhat

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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

As per the 2011 Census of India Uddharanpur had a total population of 3,437, of which 1,831 (53%) were males and 1,606 (47%) were females. Population below 6 years was 330. The total number of literates in Uddharanpur was 2,667 (85.84% of the population over 6 years).^[3][4]

There are many festival in Uddharanpur. The Annual fair of Uddharanpur is very popular. People from many other places are come to join the fair. It is held on January, beside the Uddharanpur Bazar in the Melar Math. The saint novelist Kalikananda Abadhuta (1910 — 1978) resided in the Burning Ghat of Uddharanpur beside the Bhagirathi River.^[5] He wrote a novel on this village named Uddharanpurer Ghat. based on the life of the village.^[6]

• Uddharanpur G.S.F.P School^[7]
• Uddharanpur Madhyamik Sikshya Kendra

The village is well connected to Bolpur-Shantiniketan and Asansol by the buses plying on Bolpur road. In order to reach the village via railways one has to get down on Gangatikuri railway station which lies on the Katwa-Azimganj line route. The village can be reached by the waterways by the ferries plying on Hooghly river from Katwa and Bhagyabantipur village (in Nadia district). It is connected to the nearby town of Katwa via roadways and waterways.

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