Mandalkuli Mandalkuli | |
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Village | |
  Mandalkuli Location in West Bengal, India Show map of West Bengal Mandalkuli Mandalkuli (India) Show map of India | |
| Coordinates:22°44′37″N86°54′52″E / 22.7436°N 86.9144°E /22.7436; 86.9144 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Bankura |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 4,011 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali,Santali,English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 722134 |
| Telephone/STD code | 03243 |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bankura |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Raipur |
| Website | bankura |
Mandalkuli (also referred to as Mandalkuli) is a village and agram panchayat in theRaipurCD block in theKhatra subdivision of theBankura district in the state ofWest Bengal,India.
Mandankuli is located at22°44′37″N86°54′52″E / 22.7436°N 86.9144°E /22.7436; 86.9144.
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, Mandankuli had a total population of 4,011, of which 2,066 (52%) were males and 1,945 (48%) were females. There were 452 persons in the age range of 0–6 years. The total number of literate persons in Mandankuli was 2,353 (66.11% of the population over 6 years).[1]
Mandalkuli Netaji Vidyapith is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1935. It has facilities for teaching from class V to class XII. The school has 10 computers, a library with 50 books and a playground.[2] This is one of the fourteen schools in Bankura district in which the opening of anOlchiki medium section (for Santali language) from class V was sanctioned in 2012.[3]
Raipur Block Mahavidyalaya was established in 2010 atKharigerya. It is affiliated with theBankura University and offers honours courses in Bengali, Santali and history.[4]
According toBinoy Ghosh, Mandalkuli must have been a Jain centre similar toAmbikanagar orDharapat, but the large collection of statues that one sees at Mandalkuli is not there elsewhere in Bankura district. It is there only in Purulia district. When Binoy Ghosh visited the place in 1968, he saw statues of Jain, Buddhist and Hindu deities. He says that it was possibly a Jain or Buddhist centre earlier and later taken over by resurgent Hinduism.[5]
