Medinipur division is one of the 5 divisions in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the westernmost division of West Bengal. Earlier it was a part of Burdwan division and was curved out from it in 2016. The port city of Haldia is located in this division.
Districts It consists of 5 districts:
CodeDistrictHeadquartersEstablishedSub-DivisionAreaPopulation As of 2011Population DensityMapMEPurba MedinipurTamluk2002 Tamluk Sadar Haldia Egra Contai5,094,238MEPaschim MedinipurMedinipur2002 Kharagpur Medinipur Sadar Ghatal5,943,300PUPuruliaPurulia1956 Purulia Sadar Manbazar Raghunathpur Jhalda2,927,965BNBankuraBankura1947 Bankura Sadar Khatra Bishnupur3,596,292JHJhargramJhargram2017 Jhargram Sadar1,136,548 Total5—-1518,672,669
Demographics
Hindus form the majority of the population of Medinipur division and comprises 82.3% of the population. There is a significant population of various tribes in this division such as Kudmi, Santhal, Munda, etc. Muslims comprises 9.1% of the population.Population by religious community: West Bengal. 2011 Census of India.
Notable people
Birendranath Sasmal, independence activist, barrister, freedom fighter and politician Satish Chandra Samanta, freedom fighter, politician and principal leader of Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar Sushil Kumar Dhara, freedom fighter, politician & another leader of Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar Ajoy Mukherjee, freedom fighter, politician & former Chief Minister of West Bengal Serajuddin Ahmad, MLA for Midnapore Syed Shah Mehr Ali Alquadri Al Baghdadi (1808–1868), Sufi saint Sheikh Siraj Ali, politician Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Indian business journalist Syed Shamsul Bari, politician Rajnarayan Basu, writer and proponent of Young Bengal movement Anirban Bhattacharya, actor in Tollywood movies Khudiram Bose, one of the youngest martyrs of the Indian Independence Movement. Soumya Sankar Bose, Photographer Byomkes Chakrabarti, Linguist, writer and poet Ramapada Chowdhury, Bengali author and editor Souhardya De, orientalist and Bal Puraskar recipient Mahasweta Devi, writer and Magsaysay Award winner Nirmal Jibon Ghosh, revolutionary Sheikh Najmul Haque, six-term legislator Syed Moazzam Hossain, politician Sheikh Humayun Kabir, state minister Hemchandra Kanungo, an Indian nationalist and prime organiser of Anushilan Samiti Sheikh Jahangir Karim, teacher and politician Ghulam Faruque Khan, politician and businessman Selima Khatun, teacher and politician Abha Maiti, freedom fighter, former minister of West Bengal and Government of India Moulana Muhammad Momtaz, Islamic scholar and politician Mohiuddin Nawab, novelist, screenwriter and poet Tawfique Nawaz, lawyer Anath Bondhu Panja, freedom fighter, member of the Bengal Volunteers, martyred after successfully assassinating oppressive District magistrate Bernard E. J. Burge. Narayan Chandra Rana, scientist Suhrawardy family Begum Badar un nissa Akhtar, social reformer Khujista Akhtar Banu, writer and educationist Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy, Islamic scholar, barrister and academic Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy, diplomat and poet Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Chief Minister of Bengal during British period, Prime Minister of Pakistan and founder of the Awami League Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy, Islamic scholar, educationist and author Zahid Suhrawardy, jurist Begum Akhtar Sulaiman, social worker and political activist Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, reformer and philanthropist, key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. Zamindar family of Midnapore Sir Abdur Rahim KCSI, President of India Jalaludin Abdur Rahim, diplomat and political philosopher Matangini Hazra, freedom fighter, martyr in Quit India Movement Madhusudan Jana, doctor, journalist, teacher and social worker. Founder of Nihar Press Basanta Kumar Das, freedom fighter, politician, member of the Constituent Assembly which helped to create the Constitution of India Nikunja Behari Maiti, Independence activist, politician, first Education Minister of West Bengal Anil Ghorai, poet, novelist and short story writer Mani Lal Bhaumik, Indian American physicist and an internationally bestselling author, entrepreneur and philanthropist Anil Kumar Gain, Indian statistician and Mathematician, founder of Vidyasagar University Samit Bhanja, famous Indian actor Abha Maiti, Indian politician and lawyer, minister of state for Industry in the Morarji Desai government Ashok Dinda, Indian cricketer turned politician Suryakant Tripathi, Indian poet, novelist, essayist and writer. One of the most significant poets of Hindi literature Rai Sahib Bipin Bihari Sasmal, Zamindar, educationist and politician Phulrenu Guha, educationist and politician Biswanath Mukherjee, Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India, one of the founder members of AISF Paresh Maity, painter and Padma Shri and awardee 2014 Jadugopal Mukherjee, Indian politician and revolutionary, one of the leaders of Jugantar group Somenath Maity, Indian artist famous for urban landscape paintings Bhupal Chandra Panda, Indian revolutionary and politician Biplab Roy Chowdhury, politician Ashutosh Kuila, Indian revolution, freedom fighter, famously martyred during the Quit India Movement Suvendu Adhikari, Politician, Chief Minister, West Bengal
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