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Baul singers at Shantiniketan. The culture of West Bengal is an Indian culture which has its roots in Bengali literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. Different geographic regions of West Bengal have subtle as well as more pronounced variations between each other, with Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and Duars showing particularly different socio-cultural aspects.
District wise Scheduled Tribes demographic map of West Bengal. More than half of the total ST population of the state is concentrated in Medinipur, Jalpaiguri, Purulia, and Bardhaman districts. Of the remaining districts, Bankura, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur, and Dakshin Dinajpur have sizable ST population. [3]
Patua Sangeet or Poter Gan is a cultural tradition of Bengal Patachitra in West Bengal. It is performed by the Patuas. [22] It is famous in the southern and south-western districts of West Bengal like Birbhum, Jhargram, Bardhaman and Murshidabad as folk song. [23]
Wooden protima or idol is seen in Indian Museum. The art-making wooden dolls have been an age-old practice in West Bengal and Natungram is one of them. Natungram, a village of West Bengal makes wooden dolls like Gouranga, Krishna, Bor-Bou, Gour-Nitai, owl etc. [38] Gomira masks of North and South Dinajpur in West Bengal are also made of wood ...
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Sitai (SC) constituency [3] [5] Party Candidate Votes % ±% INC: Keshab Chandra Ray 79,791 46.63 −0.67 AIFB: Dipak Kumar Roy 78,214 45.71 +1.62 BJP: Brajo Gobinda Barman 5,185 3.03 Independent Bhajan Biswas 2,904 SUCI: Anil Chandra Barman Roy 2,035 Independent Goutam Barman 1,613 Independent Tapas Barman ...
West Bengal is now divided into 23 districts which includes the newly formed Alipurduar district (formed on 25 June 2014), Kalimpong district (formed on 14 February 2017), Jhargram district (formed on 4 April 2017), and the splitting of the former Bardhaman district into Purba Bardhaman district and Paschim Bardhaman district (formed on 7 April ...
The Nandigram violence was an incident in Nandigram, West Bengal where, on the orders of the Left Front government, more than 4,000 heavily armed police stormed the Nandigram area with the aim of stamping out protests against the West Bengal government's plans to expropriate 10,000 acres (40 km 2) of land for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to be ...
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Jagatdal constituency [10] [12] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AITC: Parash Dutta 86,388 58.80 AIFB: Haripada Biswas: 50,356 34.28 BJP: Dilip Mitra 4,276 2.91 BSP: Bimal Krishna Ray 2,657 Independent Mukul Sarkar 1,342 Independent Debashis Das 1,007 Independent Pronab Kumar De 884 Turnout: 146,910 85.27 AITC ...