Kakdwip
Sign in to saveKakdwip () is a town of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated on the eastern banks of the Hooghly River. It is the headquarters of the Kakdwip subdivision.
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- Population
- 14704
- Area
- 5.36
- Elevation
- 5
- Official website
- s24pgs.gov.in
- Image
- Kakdwip Police Station.jpg
- Households
- 3003
- Dialing code
- 3210
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- Kakdwip
- female population
- 7156
- male population
- 7548
- illiterate population
- 5046
- literate population
- 9658
- postal code
- 743347
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Kakdwip () is a town of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated on the eastern banks of the Hooghly River. It is the headquarters of the Kakdwip subdivision.
==History== When the Tebhaga movement broke out in 1946, the peasant movement affected several areas of what is now South 24 Parganas. Kakdwip and Namkhana were the storm centres of the movement.
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