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Shibganj Upazila is divided into Shibganj Municipality and 15
union parishads: Binodpur, Chakkirti, Chhatrajitpur, Daipukuria, Dhainagar, Durlovpur, Ghorapakhia,
Kansat, Mobarakpur, Monakasha, Noyalavanga, Panka,
Shahbajpur, Shyampur, and Ujirpur. The union parishads are subdivided into 199 mauzas and 407 villages.
Shibganj Municipality is subdivided into 9 wards and 31
mahallas
Pukhuria village
In
between Shibganj and Kansat lies a small village Pukhuria with natural
pictures and mango trees. Pukhuria village is situated on the bank of
river Ganges where river Ganges enters Bengal. This village had Muslim
and Hindu populations.
New Alidanga village
This
village lies in the center of Shibganj pourosova. This is a very small
village. This village is just beside the river Pagla which is one of the
major river in Shibganj upazila. The main crematorium of Shibganj
upazila is situated in this village. This crematorium is not an ordinary
crematorium. This crematorium has a long and a glorious history and
this is one of the main tirthaksetra of Hindus. A very big religious
fair is also arranged every year around this crematorium.
Hindu heritage
Shibganj has a few well known places with Hindu heritage, Kanshat town and Kansat Bazar. Most of the wealthy
Hindus left
East Pakistan for India after
Partition of India in 1947. One of Hindu families used to live by the side of the Shahanbandha lake or
pookoor and the origin of village's name Pukhuria. The Hindu family was known as Ghosh family. Ghosh family had a
manor by the side of the lake and surrounded on three sides by
mango,
coconut and
date palm trees. This manor had an entrance with
Ashoka trees. Ghosh family lived there for hundreds of years. Ramesh Chandra Ghosh was born there and studied at Malda Zilla School and
Calcutta University and became a lawyer, after having MA LLB. He practised Law at Chapai Nawabganj of
Malda District and later at
Malda
town. He was a politician and imprisoned by British colonial government
of India during independence movements of the 1940s. He was a political
colleague of
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Ramesh Chandra Ghosh married Shoilobala Sen of
Coochbehar. Family of Shoilobala Sen was a friend of the then
Maharaja of Cooch Behar. They had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Their eldest daughter was the first female who graduated (BA) from
Calcutta University in that area. One son became principal of a college at
Howrah near
Kolkata, two sons became physician graduating from
Kolkata NRS Medical College
(formerly known as Campbell Medical College), and another became Chief
Architect of Calcutta and had postgraduate qualification from United
States. One of their physician sons went to UK and married an
English lady and settled there and worked in UK
National Health Service and had several achievements. He is mentioned in "Who's Who Indians in Britain."
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