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{{Short description|Village in West Bengal, India}}
{{other uses|Salimabad (disambiguation){{!}}Salimabad}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Salimabad
| native_name = Salīmābād
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| other_name = Sulaimānābād
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| settlement_type = Village
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| coordinates = {{coord|23.0790|N|87.9968|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[India]]
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Purba Bardhaman district]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Community development block|Block]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Jamalpur (community development block)|Jamalpur]]
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| area_total_km2 = 3.422
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| population_total = 5491
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics1_title1 = Official
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
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| postal_code = 713408
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'''Salimabad''' is a village in [[Jamalpur (community development block)|Jamalpur block]] of [[Purba Bardhaman district]], [[West Bengal]], India. It is located on the east bank of the [[Damodar river]], about {{convert|20|mi|km}} south of the city of [[Bardhaman]]. Historically known as '''Sulaimanabad''', it was the capital of a [[sarkar (administrative division)|sarkar]] of [[Bengal Subah|Mughal Bengal]]. Today, the primary economic activities in the village are growing rice and producing cloth. As of 2011, Salimabad has a population of 5,491, in 1,282 households.

== Geography ==
Salimabad is located on the east bank of the [[Damodar river]], about {{convert|20|mi|km}} south of the city of [[Bardhaman]]. The Kānā Nadī canal is drawn off from the river here.<ref name="Beames 1896">{{cite journal |last1=Beames |first1=John |author1-link=John Beames |title=Notes on Akbar's Súbahs, with Reference to the Aín-i Akbarí |journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1896 |issue=Jan. 1896 |pages=83–136 |jstor=25207777 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25207777 |access-date=5 June 2023}}</ref>{{rp|100}}

== History ==
Salimabad was originally named ''Sulaimanabad'', after [[Sulaiman Khan Karrani]], who ruled the [[Bengal Sultanate]] from 1565 to 1572.<ref name="Hunter 1877">{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=W. W. |author1-link=William Wilson Hunter |title=A Statistical Account of Bengal, Volume IV. Districts of Bardwan, Bankura, and Birbhum |date=1877 |pages=342–3 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55883/page/n339}}</ref> In the late 1500s, Sulaimanabad was listed in the ''[[Ain-i Akbari]]'' as the seat of a [[sarkar (administrative division)|sarkar]] under [[Bengal Subah|''subah'' Bengal]]. The sarkar contained 31 ''[[Mahallah|mahal]]''s, of which ''Haveli'' Sulaimanabad (i.e. the suburban district around the city) was one. The entire sarkar had an assessed revenue of 17,629,964 [[dam (Indian coin)|dam]]s, and it supplied a force of 5,000 infantry and 100 cavalry. The ''mahal'' of Haveli Sulaimanabad was assessed at a revenue of 2,051,090 dams.<ref name="Ain-i-Akbari">{{cite book |last1=Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak |author1-link=Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak |translator-last1=Jarrett |translator-first1=Henry Sullivan |title=The Ain-i-Akbari |date=1891 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bengal |location=Calcutta |url=https://archive.org/details/ainiakbarivolum00mubgoog |access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref>{{rp|130}}

At some point after the ''Ain-i Akbari'''s compilation, the name ''Sulaimanabad'' was truncated to ''Salimabad''. According to [[Heinrich Blochmann]], the change in name may have been simply because the old name was "too long", or it may have been to honour the emperor [[Jahangir]], who was originally named Salim.<ref name="Beames 1896"/>{{rp|99}} [[Irfan Habib]] notes that this is not a one-off phenomenon – several other places named in the ''Ain'' have also undergone a change from "Sulaiman" to "Salim" since the ''Ain'' was written.<ref name="Habib 1982">{{cite book |last1=Habib |first1=Irfan |author1-link=Irfan Habib |title=An Atlas of the Mughal Empire |date=1982 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0195603796 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Buo9AQAAIAAJ |access-date=26 March 2023}}</ref>{{rp|44}}

== Demographics ==
According to the [[2011 Census of India]], Salimabad had a population of 5,491, in 1,282 households.<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: West Bengal District Census Handbook - Barddhaman, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1344/download/4390/DH_2011_1909_PART_A_DCHB_BARDDHAMAN.pdf |website=Census 2011 India |access-date=7 June 2023}}</ref>{{rp|936}}

== Economy ==
The 2011 census listed two main commodities produced in Salimabad: rice and cloth. [[Sari]] weaving followed the two as the village's third-most important economic activity. No regular market or weekly [[haat]] was listed as meeting here, and there were no banks or [[Primary Agricultural Credit Society|agricultural credit societies]].<ref name="Census 2011"/>{{rp|941, 945}}

== Infrastructure ==
According to the 2011 census, the village of Salimpur had 1 primary health sub-centre, 2 primary schools, and 1 secondary school. There was no library or post office, nor any public restrooms. Drinking water was mainly drawn from [[well]]s or [[irrigation tank|tank]]s. Access to electricity was present but limited.<ref name="Census 2011"/>{{rp|936-42}}

== Transport ==
There is no bus service to Salimpur, and there is no train station in the village. Streets are mainly made of ''[[Indian vernacular architecture#kachcha|kachcha]]'' materials.<ref name="Census 2011"/>{{rp|940}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Villages in Purba Bardhaman district]]
[[Category:Parganas of sarkar Sulaimanabad listed in the Ain-i-Akbari]]

Salimabad, Purba Bardhaman - Revision history

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