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{{About|the district|its eponymous headquarters|Hugli-Chuchura}}

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== History ==

File:Hooghly Imambara by Piyal Kundu2.jpg|Hooghly Imambara

File:Chandannagore Strand Park.jpg|Chandannagar Strand

File:Rad Gt Hooghly.jpg|[[Grand Trunk Road]]

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== Geography ==

The district is bordered by [[Howrah district|Howrah District]] to the south, [[Bardhaman]] District to the north, and to the east by the [[River Hooghly]]. [[Bankura]] District lies to the north-west, with [[Medinipur]] District to the south-west.

[[File:Subdivision of Hooghly District.jpg|thumb|right|Subdivision of Hooghly district map]]

The district comprises four subdivisions: Chinsurah, Chandannagore, Srirampore and Arambagh.

* [[Chandannagore subdivision]] consists of [[Chandannagar]] municipal corporation and three municipalities ([[Bhadreswar, Hooghly|Bhadreswar]], [[Champdani]] and [[Tarakeswar]]) and three community development blocs: Haripal, Singur and Tarakeswar.

[[Hugli-Chuchura]] is the district headquarters. There are 23 police stations, 18 development blocks, 12 municipalities and 210 [[gram panchayat]]s in this district.<ref name=blocdir /><ref name=adminsetup>{{cite web |url=http://hooghly.nic.in/Municpal_elec/General_information.htm |title=Municipal General Election 2005: Hooghly District |publisher=Official website of Hooghly district |access-date=13 December 2008}}</ref>

==== Chinsurah subdivision ====

* Two municipalities: [[Hugli-Chuchura]] and [[Bansberia]]

* [[Balagarh (community development block)|Balagarh]] community development block consists of rural areas with 13&nbsp;gram panchayats and four census towns: [[Jirat]], [[Sripur, Hooghly|Sripur]], [[Badhagachhi]], [[Mirdhanga]].

==== Chandannagore subdivision ====

* Three municipalities: [[Bhadreswar, Hooghly|Bhadreswar]], [[Champdani]], and [[Tarakeswar]]

* [[Haripal]] community development block consists of rural areas only with 15&nbsp;gram panchayats one census town: [[Bargachhia]].

* Six municipalities: [[Serampore]], [[Uttarpara Kotrung]], [[Konnagar]], [[Rishra]], [[Dankuni]] and [[Champdani]]

* [[Chanditala I (community development block)|Chanditala–I]] community development block consists of rural areas only with 9 gram panchayats and 2 census towns: [[Masat, Hooghly|Masat]], [[Gangadharpur]], Aniya, Bhagabatipur, Haripur, Krishnarampur, Kumirmorah, Nawabpur, Sheakhala.

=== Assembly constituencies ===

# [[Jangipara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Jangipara]] (assembly constituency no. 177),

# [[Chanditala (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Chanditala]] (assembly constituency no. 178),

==== Impact of delimitation of constituencies ====

# [[Uttarpara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Uttarpara]] (assembly constituency no. 185)

# [[Sreerampur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Sreerampur]] (assembly constituency no. 186)

=== Police administration ===

For the functioning of 23 police stations of the district, District Intelligence Branch, District Enforcement Branch and District Reserve Police Force SP, Hooghly is assisted by three additional superintendents:

* [[Bandel Junction railway station]]

* [[Dankuni Junction railway station]]

* [[Kamarkundu]]

The railway is under Howrah Division. The Howrah – New Delhi Rajdhani Route passes through the district, which is one of the most important routes of the country. This route comes under Howrah division and is under the jurisdiction of Sr Den/2/Hwh assisted by AEN/2/LLH. The first train of ER started its journey from Howrah to Hooghly on 14 August 1854 (First halt was Bally (Howrah) and second halt was [[Serampore]]). '''Hooghly''' station was announced as the heritage station.

=== Bus ===

'''Chinsurah''' is one of the largest bus terminus of Hooghly. Several local bus route bound Rishra, Memari, Jirat, Tarakeswar, Haripal, Jangipara are available.

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According to the [[2011 census of India|2011 census]] Hooghly district has a [[Demographics of India|population]] of 5,519,145,<ref name=districtcensus>{{cite web |url=http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php |title=District Census 2011 |access-date=30 September 2011 |year=2011 |publisher=Census2011.co.in}}</ref> roughly equal to the nation of [[Denmark]]<ref name="cia">{{cite web |author=US Directorate of Intelligence |title=Country Comparison:Population |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html |access-date=1 October 2011 |quote=Denmark 5,529,888, July 2011 est.}}</ref> or the US state of [[Wisconsin]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php |title=2010 Resident Population Data |publisher=U. S. Census Bureau |access-date=30 September 2011 |quote=Wisconsin 5,686,986 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019160532/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php |archive-date=19 October 2013 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> This gives it a ranking of 16th in India (out of a total of [[Districts of India|640]]).<ref name=districtcensus /> The district has a population density of {{convert|1753|PD/sqkm|PD/sqmi}}.<ref name=districtcensus />

== Education ==

* [[Hooghly Mohsin College]], Estd. 1836

* [[Sitapur Endowment Senior Madrasah]] - is established in 1751 as a part of [http://twocircles.net/2012may04/sitapur_endowment_land_without_rent.html Sitapur endowmant].

* [[Furfura Fatehia Senior Madrasah]] Estd. 1902

* [[Government College of Engineering & Textile Technology Serampore]]

* '''[[Guptipara]]''' is famous for Rathayatra and Rashmela. There are few historical [[Terracotta]] temple in Brindabanchandra Math.

* The historical triple cities of [[Chandanagar]]-[[Chinsurah]]-[[Serampore]] are called Little Europe as these were all European colonies.

*'''[[Khanakul]]''' birthplace of Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

* '''[[Kamarpukur]]''' is the birthplace of Sri Sri [[Ramakrishna]] dev.

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== Notable people ==

*[[Panchanan Karmakar]] (Inventor of wooden [[Bengali language|Bengali]] alphabet typeface)

*[[Anil Chatterjee]] (Bengali Actor) - born in [[Jirat]].

*[[Brajendra Nath Seal]] - born in [[Haripal]]. He was a humanist philosopher.

*[[Raja Ram Mohan Roy]] - born in [[Radhanagore|Radhanagar]]. He is considered as the "Father of the Indian Renaissance". He was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious (Hindu) reform movement in Undivided India.

*[[Brahmabandhav Upadhyay ]]- born in [[Khanyan]]. He was a theologian, journalist and Indian freedom fighter. He was closely attached with [[Keshub Chandra Sen]], classmate of [[Swami Vivekananda]] and close acquaintance of [[Rabindranath Tagore]].

*[[Ramnidhi Gupta]]- born in Chapta near [[Tribeni, Hooghly|Tribeni]]. He was commonly known as Nidhu Babu . He was one of the great reformers of Bengali tappā music.

*[[Motilal Roy ]]- born in [[Chandannagar]]. He was a Bengali revolutionary, journalist, social reformer. He founded the "Prabartak Sangha", a nationalist organisation for social works.

*[[Dwarka Nath Mitra]]- born in Augunsi. He belongs to the famous Mitra family of [[Janai]]. He was a famous lawyer and judge of the [[Calcutta High Court]].

*[[Manmohan Ghose]]- He belonged to the famous Ghosh family of [[Konnagar]]. He was an Indian poet and one of the first from India to write poetry in English. He was a brother of [[Sri Aurobindo]].

*[[Ashim Kumar Majhi]] born in [[Jirat]], he is a politician.

== See also ==

== External links ==

{{Commons category|Map of CD Block Hooghly District|Map of CD Blocks in Hooghly District }}

* [http://www.hooghly.gov.in/ Hooghly District official homepage]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090125225855/http://www.calcuttaweb.com/maps/hoogli.shtml Hooghly District map]

* [http://www.hooghlydistrict.info/ Hooghly District information]

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