Radhakantapur | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Radhakantapur Location in West Bengal, India Show map of West Bengal Radhakantapur Radhakantapur (India) Show map of India | |
| Coordinates:22°33′37″N87°44′39″E / 22.5603°N 87.7441°E /22.5603; 87.7441 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Medinipur |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 2,473 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali,English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 721211 |
| Telephone/STD code | 03225 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Ghatal |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Daspur |
| Website | paschimmedinipur |
Radhakantapur is a village in theDaspur ICD block in theGhatal subdivision of thePaschim Medinipur district in the state ofWest Bengal,India.
Radhakantapur is located at22°33′37″N87°44′39″E / 22.5603°N 87.7441°E /22.5603; 87.7441.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scholar, social reformer and a key figure of theBengal Renaissance, was born atBirsingha on 26 September 1820.[1][2]
Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, hasalluvial soils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once.[3] It has a density of population of 1,099 per km2, but being a small subdivision only a little over a fifth of the people in the district reside in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas.[4]
Note: 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.
According to the2011 Census of India, Radhakantapur had a total population of 2,473, of which 1,242 (50%) were males and 1,231 (50%) were females. There were 281 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Radhakantapur was 1,749 (79.79% of the population over 6 years).[5]
Radhakantapur High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1966. The school has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. It has a library with 612 books, 1 computer and a playground.[6]
David J. McCutchion classifies the Gopinath (mentioned as Panchananda) temple as anek-ratna of the smaller Daspur type, measuring 22’ x 28’, with rich terracotta façade. He classifies the Dadhibamna temple (name not mentioned, only place mentioned) as a richly decoratedpancha-ratna with smooth rekha turrets.[7]
The Gopinath temple is astate protected monument.[8]
