Santipur

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Santipur is a historic town in West Bengal, India, renowned for its traditional handloom sarees and cultural heritage.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Santipur canonical 4
Shantipur 2

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town
connectedTo Kolkata
linked to: Calcutta

Krishnanagar
Ranaghat
country India
district Nadia district
economyBasedOn handloom weaving
small-scale textile trade
governingBody Santipur Municipality
hasEducationalInstitution Santipur College
hasFestival Dol Jatra
Durga Puja
Rash Utsav
linked to: Rash Mela
hasLanguage Bengali
hasMunicipalStatus municipality
hasRailwayStation Santipur railway station
hasReligiousSite Radharaman temple
Santipur ISKCON temple
Vaishnavite temples
historicalSignificance center of Vaishnavite movement in Bengal
old weaving center in Bengal
knownFor Raas festival
linked to: Rash Mela

Rash Utsav
linked to: Rash Mela

Santipuri sarees
Vaishnavite traditions
cultural heritage
handloom sarees
textile industry
traditional weaving
legislativeAssemblyConstituency Santipur Assembly constituency
locatedIn India
Nadia district
West Bengal
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Nadia district
West Bengal
locatedInRegion Ganges Delta
Rarh region
locatedOnRiver Hooghly River
officialLanguage Bengali
parliamentaryConstituency Ranaghat Lok Sabha constituency
partOf India
Nadia district
West Bengal
postalCodeType PIN
railwayLine Ranaghat–Krishnanagar line
state West Bengal
timeZone Indian Standard Time
UTCOffset +05:30

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nadia district containsTown Santipur
Advaita Acharya residence Shantipur
linked to: Santipur
Ranaghat hasBusConnectivityTo Shantipur
linked to: Santipur