Kshirgram/ ক্ষীরগ্রাম (also written as Khirogram) is a village in

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Katwa subdivision Katwa subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Purba Bardhaman district in the state of West Bengal, India. Overview The Katwa subdivision extends from the Kanksa-Ketugram plain to the Bhagirathi basin. The Ajay flows through the s ...

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in the

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Geography

Location

Kshirgram is located at .

Urbanisation

88.44% of the population of Katwa subdivision live in the rural areas. Only 11.56% of the population live in the urban areas. The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

As per the 2011 Census of India, Kshirgram had a total population of 2,474 of which 1,260 (51%) were males and 1,214 (49%) were females. Population below 6 years was 242. The total number of literates in Kshirgram was 1,651 (73.97% of the population over 6 years).

Culture

Khirogram is a satipith and is famous for its Yogadya and

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temples. It is said that a piece of the large toe of the right leg of Sati fell at Kshirgram and it is considered one of the fifty one shakti peethas. At Kshirgram the goddess is known as Yogadya. The temple of Kshireswar is a little away from Kshirdighi.Ghosh, Binoy, ''Paschim Banger Sanskriti'', (in Bengali), part I, 1976 edition, page 185-187, Prakash Bhaban The goddess Yogadya is worshipped at Kshirgram on

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and a big fair is organised. It is said that earlier there was no idol of the goddess at Kshirgram but both the puja and the fair were there. The goddess in an ugra-chandi form appeared in a dream to Haridutta, the king of Kshirgram and he got a stone image of the ten-armed Singhabahini goddess made and established it. The goddess is worshipped by the Ugra Kshatriyas in places other than Kshirgram, a day earlier. When the idol of goddess Yogadya was once found broken, Nabin Bhaskar of Dainhat made an exact duplicate and the cost was borne by the Maharaja of Bardhaman.

Transport

It is located about from

Katwa Katwa is a sub-divisional town and railway junction in Purba Bardhaman district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Katwa subdivision. The town was built at the confluence of Ganga and Ajay. Katwa is a border cit ...

on the Katwa–

Burdwan Bardhaman (, ), officially Bardhaman Sadar, is a city and municipality in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarters of Purba Bardhaman district, having become a district capital during the period of British rule. Burdwan, an a ...

road. Kshirgram is about 3 miles from the station at Kaichor on the Bardhaman-Katwa line.

Healthcare

There is a primary health centre at Khirogram (with 2 beds).

References

{{Purba Bardhaman District Villages in Purba Bardhaman district