Daulatnagar is a village and a gram panchayat in the Harishchandrapur II CD block in the Chanchal subdivision of Malda district in the state of

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Geography

Location

Daulatnagar is located at . Daulatnagar is a gram panchayat.

Area overview

The area shown in the adjacent map covers two physiographic regions – the '' Barind'' in the east and the ''tal'' in the west. The eastern part is comparatively high (up to 40 metres above mean sea level at places) and uneven. The soils of the eastern region are "hard salty clays of a reddish hue and the ground is baked hard as iron." It lies to the east of the Mahananda River. The area lying to the west of the Mahananda River, the ''tal'', is a flat low land and "is strewn with innumerable marshes, bils and oxbow lakes." The ''tal'' area is prone to flooding by local rivers. The total area is overwhelmingly

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. There are two important historical/ archaeological sites in the area – Pandua and Jagjivanpur. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the area. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Daulatnagar had a total population of 13,235, of which 6,937 (52%) were males and 6,298 (48%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 2,080. The total number of literate persons in Daulatnagar was 6,284 (56.33% of the population over 6 years).

Education

Daulat Nagar High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1965. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has a playground, a library with 400 books, and 5 computers for teaching and learning.

References

{{Malda District Villages in Malda district