Rajpur Sonarpur
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| Rajpur Sonarpur | |
| State - District(s) |
West Bengal - South 24 Parganas |
| Area | |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Population (2001) - Density |
336,390 - |
Rajpur Sonarpur is a city and a municipality in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
[edit] Demographics
As of 2001 India censusGRIndia, Rajpur Sonarpur had a population of 336,390. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Rajpur Sonarpur has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 83%, and female literacy is 73%. In Rajpur Sonarpur, 9% of the population is under 6 years of age.
With the partition of India there was a massive influx of refugees from East Pakistan into Kolkata and its peripheral areas. Of over a million refugees who entered West Bengal in 1950 alone settled mostly in squatter colonies between Naihati and Sonarpur on the east bank of the Hooghly and between Mogra and Uluberia on the west bank. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Chatterjee, Nilanjana, The East Bengal Refugees – A Lesson in Survival, in Calcutta, the Living City, Vol II, edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, pp 74-75, Oxford University Press, ISBN 019563697-X
[edit] See also
| Cities and towns in South 24 Parganas district |
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