Barrackpore

Barrackpore is the headquarters of the Barrackpore subdivision of North 24 Parganas region in the Indian province of West Bengal. It is a piece of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration. Barrackpore was home to ious noteworthy individuals from the Indian autonomy development, a considerable lot of whom have dedications in the subdivision. Surendranath Banerjee, who was known as the dad of Indian Nationalist Movement, lived in Barrackpore. The place of Surendranath at Monirampur of Barrackpore has been changed over into the Mahadevananda Mahavidyalaya and Netaji Subhas Open University.

The towns of Panihati and Khardaha are known for having been visited by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu somewhere in the range of 500 years back. Yearly celebrations and melas are held at these spots and draw vast quantities of aficionados. Later guests included Sri Ram Krishna Paramahansa, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, and Mahatma Gandhi. The Gandhi Ghat is situated on the east bank of the Hooghly; a Gandhi exhibition hall adjacent has an uncommon accumulation of books and articles utilized by Gandhi.

The Sukanta Sadan theater lobby is situated in the primary town. There are numerous film lobbies in Barrackpore and its neighboring areas. The Sahid Mangal Pandey Uddan Nishan Ghat stop confronting the Ganges at Barrackpore is a crowdpuller. Bengali celebrations, for example, Durga Puja, and Kali puja are commended each year. There is multi month-long reasonable each December– January Bengali month of Pushya at the sanctuary of the goddess Kali at Shyamnagar on the bank of the Ganges.