Shantipur

Shantipur is a city and a region in Ranaghat subdivision of Nadia area in the Indian territory of West Bengal. This residential community has been proclaimed a city recentlywhen. The post territory of this city, otherwise called Daak-Gharh is thought to have been worked by Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia. Babla is one of well known place for pioneers. Rasjatra is a well known celebration of Shantipur town. Santipur is well known for handloom sarees from antiquated occasions.

After the parcel of India, numerous weavers originated from Dhaka of Bangladesh and began to live here in Phulia locale, which is a Panchayat region of Santipur. The old and historical town Shantipur is well known for Ras Utsav and "Dolutsav" which is thought to have started by Mathuresh Goswami, the considerable grandson of Advaita Acharya who was one of the fundamental partners of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The guideline divinity of the town is 'Radharaman' in the group of Baro Gosai plunging from the heredity of Mathuresh Goswami.

The divinity was initially introduced as a solitary statue of krishna named 'dol govinda' in Orissa by ruler indradyumna. At the point when the ruler of Yessore now in Bangladesh, Pratapaditya assaulted Orissa, the cleric of the sanctuary gave away the god to his very own master Mathuresh Goswami to ensure it in the midst of crisis. He conveyed the symbol to his familial home in Shantipur where he reinstalled it in another sanctuary. A divinity of Radha was later introduced alongside Dolgovinda and them two renamed Radharaman.