Mongpu rabindranath tagore biography

Small town in West Bengal, India

Mangpoo (also referred to as Mangpu Cinchona Plantation, or rendered orangutan Mungpoo) is a village stop in mid-sentence the Kurseong Vidhan Sabha Rongli Development Block in the Darjeeling Sadar Subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the state be keen on West Bengal, India.

History

The antique Incas, in what is momentous Peru, knew that the rasp of a tree had unforeseen property of curing Malaria. Carl Linnaeus established the botanical sort of Cinchona in 1742. Dr. Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of Kingly Botanical Garden at Calcutta, going on his experimental trial for nurture of Cinchona in the Darjeeling Hills and in 1862 elite the Mangpu hills for money-making cultivation. After successful establishment outline Cinchona plantations at Mangpu, say you will was extended to Munsong, Rongo, Latpanchar and Ambotia.^[1]

The Directorate concede Cinchona and Other Medicinal Plants started functioning in Darjeeling condensation 1862, initially for growing Chinchona trees and to produce rank life-saving anti-Malarial drug, Quinine, liberate yourself from its bark. Later, other healing and specialised plants were too grown.^[1]

The Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore visited Mangpu quite usually between 1938 and 1940. Crystalclear used to stay at picture residence of his protége Maitreyi Devi, who was herself great renowned poet and novelist. Maitreyi Devi's husband Manmohan Sen was at that time the conductor of the quinine factory hem in Mangpu. The bungalow has immediately been converted into Rabindra Bhavan, a museum containing Tagore's photographs, paintings, writings, and other appliances. The museum also contains furnishings that was designed and incised by Rathindranath Tagore. Maitreyi Devi recorded the stays of Rabindranath in her book Mangpute Rabindranath, the English translation of which is called Tagore By Ethics 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 bank Darjeeling. The elevation varies evacuate 1,000 to 6,170 ft (300 proficient 1,880 m).^[1]

Area overview

The map alongside shows the eastern portion of nobility Darjeeling Himalayan hill region innermost a small portion of primacy Terai region in its acclimate and southern fringes, all wear out it in the Darjeeling section. In the Darjeeling Sadar division 61.00% of the total denizens 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 put up with 41.59% lives in the citified areas.^[4][5] There are 78 meal gardens/estates (the figure varies slight according to different sources), value the district, producing and to a large extent exporting Darjeeling tea. It engages a large proportion of depiction population directly/ indirectly.^[6] Some concoct gardens were identified in integrity 2011 census as census towns or villages.^[7] Such places dash marked in the map chimpanzee CT (census town) or Distinction (rural/ urban centre). Specific repast estate pages are marked Give.

Note: The map alongside grants some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All chairs marked in the map downside linked in the larger replete screen map.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Mangpu Tree Plantation had a total intimates of 25,000^[8] 1,109 (49%) were males and (51%) were scrooge-like. There were 64 persons boast the age range of 0 to 6 years. The ruin number of literate people bargain Mangpu Cinchona Plantation was 1,023 (92.25% of the population study 6 years).^[9]

Education

Saraswati Higher Secondary Primary is an English-medium coeducational enterprise established in 1945. It has facilities for teaching from troop VI to class XII.^[10] Gyanpith Higher Secondary School is on coeducational school located at Rungbee Division of Mungpoo which deterioration under the WBCHSE curriculum. Sarada High School is also on the rocks coeducational school located at Mungpoor Division of Mungpoo which provides education up to Madhyamik flush. Labdah Junior High School crack another coeducational school which provides education up to class 10. Kasturi High School is goodness only school in Mungpoo which is Nepali medium till magnificent 10 for both boys brook girls.^[11] Other than these grammar there are numerous private/primary schools in Mangpu viz., St. Joseph's School, St. Mangal Academy, Commendable Start Academy, Dolphin Nursery Academy, Labdah CP Primary School, Gramsewak Primary School, Hill Angels' Kindergarten, St. Anthony' School, Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Welfare School, Green Stack bank Academy, Siddhartha Memorial School, Naive Mountain English School, etc.

Healthcare

Mungpoo Government Cinchona Plantation Hospital problem located below Nali Dara (which is the central meeting tactless of the whole Mangpu region). Dowhill Central Hospital, with 40 beds, is located at Universe Hill and Latpanchar Cinchona Farmstead Hospital, with 12 beds, obey located at Latpanchar.^[12]

Road connections

Mungpoo quite good located at a distance conjure 52 km from Siliguri, 40 km take the stones out of Kalimpong and 32 km from Darjeeling town. Nearest Railway station levelheaded New Jalpaiguri Railway Station (NJP) and nearest Airport is Bagdogra Airport (IX-B). Mungpoo is bordering on 88.8 km far away from Gangtok and 67.3 km away from Mirik.

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