Kanksa
Kanksa | |
|---|---|
Census Town | |
  Kanksa Location in West Bengal, India  Kanksa Kanksa (India) | |
| Coordinates: 23°28′16″N 87°27′16″E / 23.471199°N 87.454495°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Paschim Bardhaman |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.66 km2 (3.34 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 23,789 |
| • Density | 2,750/km2 (7,110/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali, English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 713148 |
| Telephone/ STD code | 0341 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-WB |
| Vehicle registration | WB |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bardhaman-Durgapur |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Durgapur Purba |
| Website | paschimbardhaman |
Kanksa is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History
[edit]The name Kankasha comes from the name of Sadgope king Kanka Sen Rai.Who fought in the Battlefield against Bakhtiar's commander Saiyad Bukhari. As per Peterson's District Gazeteer of 1910, the south-western extremity of the Sadgop kingdom of Gopbhum was held by two kinglings, probably merely cadets of the house of Gopbhum, at Bharatpur and Kankeswar or Kanksa.[1][2]
Kanksa is home to one of the oldest police stations in the area. In 1847, when Raniganj was constituted as a separate subdivision of Bardhaman district, it had three police stations under its jurisdiction - Raniganj, Kanksa and Neamatpur.[3]
The Rarheswar Shiva temple in Arra, within Kanksa police station area, is an old one of the "nagara style " category.[4][5] There also is a suggestion that there possibly was an ancient city at this place.[6]
