Radhanagar | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Radhanagar Location in West Bengal, India Show map of West Bengal Radhanagar Radhanagar (India) Show map of India | |
| Coordinates:22°41′08″N87°38′46″E / 22.685634°N 87.646091°E /22.685634; 87.646091 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Medinipur |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 5,827 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali,English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 721212 |
| Telephone/STD code | 03225 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Ghatal |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Ghatal |
| Website | paschimmedinipur |
Radhanagar is a village in theGhatalCD block in theGhatal subdivision of thePaschim Medinipur district in the state ofWest Bengal,India.
Radhanagar is located at22°41′08″N87°38′46″E / 22.685634°N 87.646091°E /22.685634; 87.646091.
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, Radhanagar had a total population of 5,827, of which 2,989 (51%) were males and 2,838 (49%) were females. There were 658 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Radhanagar was 4,185 (80.96% of the population over 6 years).[5]
Radhanagar Dinamayee Vidyamandirl is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1972. The school has facilities for teaching from class V to class X. It has a library with 300 books.[6]
David J. McCutchion mentions the Raghunatha temple as apancha-ratna with ridged rekha turrets and porch on triple archway. Built of laterite, plain, in 1718, it measures 23’ 6" square.[7]
Raghunath temple at Radhanagar is astate protected monument.[8]
