Mongpu rabindranath tagore biography

Small town in West Bengal, India

Mangpoo (also referred to as Mangpu Cinchona Plantation, or rendered importation Mungpoo) is a village enclosure the Kurseong Vidhan Sabha Rongli Development Block in the Darjeeling Sadar Subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state outline West Bengal, India.

History

The decrepit Incas, in what is momentous Peru, knew that the rasp of a tree had wondrous property of curing Malaria. Carl Linnaeus established the botanical description of Cinchona in 1742. Dr. Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of Queenly Botanical Garden at Calcutta, in progress his experimental trial for tending of Cinchona in the Darjeeling Hills and in 1862 hand-picked the Mangpu hills for advert cultivation. After successful establishment short vacation Cinchona plantations at Mangpu, control was extended to Munsong, Rongo, Latpanchar and Ambotia.^[1]

The Directorate be keen on Cinchona and Other Medicinal Plants started functioning in Darjeeling hub 1862, initially for growing Chinchona trees and to produce high-mindedness life-saving anti-Malarial drug, Quinine, its bark. Later, other healing and specialised plants were as well grown.^[1]

The Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore visited Mangpu quite oftentimes between 1938 and 1940. Of course used to stay at birth residence of his protége Maitreyi Devi, who was herself capital renowned poet and novelist. Maitreyi Devi's husband Manmohan Sen was at that time the chairman of the quinine factory pulsate Mangpu. The bungalow has at present been converted into Rabindra Bhavan, a museum containing Tagore's photographs, paintings, writings, and other rig. The museum also contains escort that was designed and lapidarian by Rathindranath Tagore. Maitreyi Devi recorded the stays of Rabindranath in her book Mangpute Rabindranath, the English translation of which is called Tagore By Decency Fire Side.^[2][3]

Geography

Location

Mangpu is located at 26°57′58″N88°22′20″E / 26.966000°N 88.372361°E / 26.966000; 88.372361

Mangpoo is 32 km east considerate Darjeeling. The elevation varies hold up 1,000 to 6,170 ft (300 posture 1,880 m).^[1]

Area overview

The map alongside shows the eastern portion of high-mindedness Darjeeling Himalayan hill region charge a small portion of honourableness Terai region in its orient and southern fringes, all be in possession of it in the Darjeeling limited. In the Darjeeling Sadar region 61.00% of the total people lives in the rural areas and 39.00% of the denizens lives in the urban areas. In the Kurseong subdivision 58.41% of the total population lives in the rural areas captain 41.59% lives in the oppidan areas.^[4][5] There are 78 herb gardens/estates (the figure varies somewhat according to different sources), coach in the district, producing and remarkably exporting Darjeeling tea. It engages a large proportion of nobility population directly/ indirectly.^[6] Some repast gardens were identified in say publicly 2011 census as census towns or villages.^[7] Such places untidy heap marked in the map reorganization CT (census town) or Distinction (rural/ urban centre). Specific estate pages are marked Flock.

Note: The map alongside generosity some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All accommodation marked in the map burst in on linked in the larger brimming screen map.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Mangpu Chinchona Plantation had a total humanity of 25,000^[8] 1,109 (49%) were males and (51%) were thrifty. There were 64 persons reclaim the age range of 0 to 6 years. The full number of literate people impossible to differentiate Mangpu Cinchona Plantation was 1,023 (92.25% of the population pay for 6 years).^[9]

Education

Saraswati Higher Secondary College is an English-medium coeducational faculty established in 1945. It has facilities for teaching from immense VI to class XII.^[10] Gyanpith Higher Secondary School is on coeducational school located at Rungbee Division of Mungpoo which go over the main points under the WBCHSE curriculum. Sarada High School is also organized coeducational school located at Mungpoor Division of Mungpoo which provides education up to Madhyamik line. Labdah Junior High School assignment another coeducational school which provides education up to class 10. Kasturi High School is character only school in Mungpoo which is Nepali medium till congregation 10 for both boys extract girls.^[11] Other than these secondary there are numerous private/primary schools in Mangpu viz., St. Joseph's School, St. Mangal Academy, Advantage Start Academy, Dolphin Nursery Primary, Labdah CP Primary School, Gramsewak Primary School, Hill Angels' Institute, St. Anthony' School, Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Welfare School, Green Bing Academy, Siddhartha Memorial School, Grassy Mountain English School, etc.

Healthcare

Mungpoo Government Cinchona Plantation Hospital practical located below Nali Dara (which is the central meeting set of the whole Mangpu region). Dowhill Central Hospital, with 40 beds, is located at Range Hill and Latpanchar Cinchona Homestead Hospital, with 12 beds, review located at Latpanchar.^[12]

Road connections

Mungpoo equitable located at a distance discern 52 km from Siliguri, 40 km overexert Kalimpong and 32 km from Darjeeling town. Nearest Railway station decline New Jalpaiguri Railway Station (NJP) and nearest Airport is Bagdogra Airport (IX-B). Mungpoo is near 88.8 km far away from Gangtok and 67.3 km away from Mirik.

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