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| subdivision_name2 = [[Purba Bardhaman district|Purba Bardhaman]]
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'''Palitpur''' is a village in [[Burdwan I]] CD Block in [[Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision]] of [[Purba Bardhaman district]] in [[West Bengal]], [[India]]. It is famous for the [[ashram]] and [[samādhi]] (tomb) of [[Tibbetibaba]], a famous [[saint]].

== Geography ==
Palitpur is located in Saraitikar Panchayat area of Burdwan-I Block and it falls within the jurisdiction of Burdwan Sadar (North) Sub-Division of [[Bardhaman district]].<ref name="209.85.175.104">[http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:kqwMUm1hOaoJ:www.wbphed.gov.in/applications/Phedweb/Block2Villpdf.php%3FState_Cd%3D19%26Dist_Cd%3D09%26Blk_Cd%3D0022+palitpur,burdwan&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=in]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

It is a small village located near the northern part of [[Burdwan]] town. On the eastern part of the village is the [[narrow gauge]] railway track between Katwa and Burdwan. There is also an unmanned level crossing at Palitpur in Burdwan.<ref>[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=249475]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

== Demographics ==
As per the [[2011 Census of India]], Palitpur had a total population of 2,089 of which 1,042 (50%) were males and 1,047 (50%) were females. Population below 6 years was 259. The total number of literates in Palitpur was 1,295 (70.77% of the population over 6 years).<ref name=census3-2011>{{cite web| url = http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/pcadata/Houselisting-housing-WB.html |title = 2011 Census – Primary Census Abstract Data Tables | work= West Bengal – District-wise |publisher= Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India | access-date = 20 March 2017 }}</ref>

{{As of|2001}} India [[census]], Palitpur had a population of 1,747. The male population was 880 and female population was 867. The [[Scheduled Caste]] population was 560 and [[Scheduled Tribe]] population was 301.<ref name="209.85.175.104"/><ref>[http://ourvillageindia.org/Place.aspx?PID=620707]</ref>

== History ==

=== Tibbetibaba ===
[[File:Tibbettibaba.jpg|right|thumb|Tibbetibaba in yogic posture]][[File:Soham Swami's Samadhi Temple at Palitpur, Burdwan.jpg|right|thumb|The photograph shows samadhi(tomb)of Soham Swami.]]
In early part of the first quarter of the Twentieth century, Bhootnath Ta, the erstwhile [[Zamindar]] of Palitpur had donated a piece of land in Palitpur for the construction of [[Ashram]] by [[Tibbetibaba]], a great saint of India.<ref>Chakravorty, Subodh, "Bharater Sadhak – Sadhika", India: Kamini Publication, 115, Akhil Mistry Lane, Kolkata – 700 009 (1997.Bengali calendar year – 1404), Volume 1, p.477</ref> Bhootnath Ta was an eminent disciple of [[Tibbetibaba]].<ref>Ghosh, Sudhanshu Ranjan, "Bharater Sadhak O Sadhika", India: Tuli Kalam Publication, 1, College Row, Kolkata – 700 009 (1992.Bengali calendar year – 1399) , p. 343</ref>
Dharmadas Mondal, another notable disciple of [[Tibbetibaba]], was also a resident of this village.<ref>Ghosh, Sudhanshu Ranjan, "Bharater Sadhak O Sadhika", India: Tuli Kalam Publication, 1, College Row, Kolkata – 700 009 (1992.Bengali calendar year – 1399), p. 341</ref>

The [[Ashram]] consists of a one-storied building, a pond, a [[Samādhi]] (tomb) of [[Tibbetibaba]], [[Soham Swami]] and some other disciples<ref>Brahmachari, Akhandananda, Paramhamsa Tibbati Babar Smriti Katha(Reminiscences of Tibbetibaba),(Bengali edition), India:
Tibbati Baba Vedanta Ashram, 76/3, Taantipara Lane, P.O. Santragachi,Howrah – 711 104, West Bengal (May, 2003), p.48</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* Ghosh, Sudhanshu Ranjan, "Bharater Sadhak O Sadhika"(Bengali edition), India: Tuli Kalam Publication, 1, College Row, Kolkata – 700 009 (1992.Bengali calendar year – 1399), pp. 318–343
* Chakravorty, Subodh, "Bharater Sadhak – Sadhika"(Bengali edition), India: Kamini Publication, 115, Akhil Mistry Lane, Kolkata – 700 009 (1997.Bengali calendar year – 1404), Volume 1, pp. 450–478 and 500-522
* Hornby, A S, "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English" (5th ed.), UK: Oxford University Press (1998). {{ISBN|0-19-431445-6}}, pp. 1433–1475.

{{Purba Bardhaman District}}

[[Category:Villages in Purba Bardhaman district]]
[[Category:Tibbetibaba]]

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