Dwarhatta is a village and a gram panchayat in the Haripal CD block in the

Chandannagore subdivision Chandannagore subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview A major portion of Chandannagore subdivision is part of the Hooghly- Damodar Plain, the agriculturally rich alluvia ...

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in the

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Geography

Location

Dwarhatta is located at

Urbanisation

In Chandannagore subdivision 58.52% of the population is rural and the urban population is 41.48%. Chandannagore subdivision has 1 municipal corporation, 3 municipalities and 7

census town In India and some other countries, a census town is designated as a town that satisfies certain characteristics. India In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population ...

s. The single municipal corporation is

Chandernagore Municipal Corporation Chandernagore Municipal Corporation or CMC is the local government that governs the city of Chandannagar in Chandannagar Subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Chandannagore Municipality was established in 1955, as per ...

. The municipalities are

Tarakeswar Municipality Tarakeswar Municipality is the civic body that governs Tarakeswar and its surrounding areas in the Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Tarakeswar Municipality was established in 1975. Geography Tarakeswa ...

Bhadreswar Municipality Bhadreswar Municipality is the civic body that governs Bhadreswar and its surrounding areas in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Bhadreswar Municipality was established in 1869. Geography Bhadreswar M ...

and

Champdany Municipality Champdani Municipality is the civic body that governs Champdani and its surrounding areas in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. History Champdany Municipality was established in 1917. Geography Champdany Municip ...

. Of the three CD Blocks in Chandannagore subdivision, Tarakeswar CD Block is wholly rural, Haripal CD Block is predominantly rural with just 1 census town, and Singur CD Block is slightly less rural with 6 census towns. Polba Dadpur and Dhaniakhali CD Blocks of Chinsurah subdivision (included in the map alongside) are wholly rural. The municipal areas are industrialised. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Dwarhatta had a population of 3,799 of which 1,936 (51%) were males and 1,843 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 370. The total number of literate persons in Kotalpur was 2,800 (81.66% of the population over 6 years).

Culture

David J. McCutchion describes several temples at Dwarhatta: *Rare examples of pancharatna temples with slender turrets are there at Dwarhatta *Raj-Rajeswar temple (1728) of the Singha Roy family at Dwarhatta having atchala with porch on triple archway - it has tight scroll work above the archways but figures along the base and round the

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*Pancharatna temples with ridged rekha turrets at Dwarhatta have facades fully decorated with figures The Rajrajeswara temple (at Sr No S-WB-52) at Dwarhatta is included in the

List of State Protected Monuments in West Bengal This is a list of State Protected Monuments as officially reported by and available through the website of the Archaeological Survey of India in the Indian state West Bengal.

by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Dwarhatta picture gallery

File:Rajrajeshwar Temple, Dwarhatta, Hooghly 02.jpg, Rajrajeswara temple of Singha Roy family, built in 1728 File:Rajrajeshwar Temple, Dwarhatta, Hooghly 08.jpg, Terracotta relief at Rajrajeswara temple File:Rajrajeshwar Temple, Dwarhatta, Hooghly 04.jpg, Terracotta relief at Rajrajeswara temple

References

External links

{{Hooghly District Villages in Hooghly district