Mangpu
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Mungpoo (also referred to as Mungpoo Cinchona Plantation, or rendered as Mungpoo) is a village in the Kurseong Vidhan Sabha Rangli Development Block in the Darjeeling Sadar Subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
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- Population
- 1119
- Households
- 225
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- female population
- 571
- male population
- 548
- illiterate population
- 408
- literate population
- 711
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Mungpoo (also referred to as Mungpoo Cinchona Plantation, or rendered as Mungpoo) is a village in the Kurseong Vidhan Sabha Rangli Development Block in the Darjeeling Sadar Subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state of West Bengal, India.
==History== The ancient Incas, in what is now Peru, knew that the bark of a tree had miraculous property of curing Malaria. Carl Linnaeus established the botanical genus of Cinchona in 1742. Dr. Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of Royal Botanical Garden at Calcutta, started his experimental trial for cultivation of Cinchona in the Darjeeling Hills and in 1862 selected the Mungpoo hills for commercial cultivation. After successful establishment of Cinchona plantations at Mungpoo, it was extended to Munsong, Rongo, Latpanchar and Ambotia.
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