Katwa

Katwa is a region town and the central command of Katwa subdivision in Purba Bardhaman region of Indian territory of West Bengal. The residential area has an authentic foundation of five hundred years. The soonest name of Katwa was Indranee Pargana. Later the name was changed to Kantak Nagari. In January 1510, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu got "Diksha" from his master Kesava Bharati at the site of the current Sri Gauranga Bari Temple in Katwa.

Since at that point, this little township has been a holy place for Vaishnavites. The area of the town at the intersection of two traversable streams, Ajay and Hooghly, made the town deliberately essential. Katwa was viewed as the passage to Murshidabad, the past capital of the subah of Bengal. According to the 2011 Census of India Katwa had an aggregate populace of 81,615, of which 41,350 51% were guys and 40,265 49% were females. Populace beneath 6 years was 6,799. The aggregate number of literates in Katwa was 65,187 79.87% of the populace more than 6 years.