Back মেদিনীপুর জেলা Bengali/Bangla Districte de Midnapore Catalan मेदिनीपूर जिल्हा Marathi Medinipur (district) Dutch Midnapore (huyện) Vietnamese Medinipur (koān) ZH-MIN-NAN
| Midnapore district | |||||||||||
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| Former district of British India and India | |||||||||||
| 1760–2002 | |||||||||||
.svg) Location of Midnapore district in West Bengal (2001) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Midnapore | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| • Coordinates | 22°25′26″N 87°19′08″E / 22.424°N 87.319°E | ||||||||||
• 1760[1] | 15,804 km2 (6,102 sq mi) | ||||||||||
• 1872[2] | 13,163 km2 (5,082 sq mi) | ||||||||||
• 2001 | 14,081 km2 (5,437 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1872[2] | 2,540,963 | ||||||||||
• 2001 | 9,610,788 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Ceded to East India Company | 1760 | ||||||||||
| 2002 | |||||||||||
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Midnapore (Pron: mad̪aːniːpur), or sometimes Medinipur, is a former district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Midnapore. On 1 January 2002, the district was bifurcated into two separate districts namely Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur. It was the largest district of West Bengal by area and population at the time of bifurcation.[3]
- ^ Mukherjee, Deblina (21 September 2024). "Banditry or Peasant Insurgency? Contextualizing and Analysing the Chuar Rebellion of Midnapore Under East India Company (1770s–1800)". Contemporary Voice of Dalit: 2455328X241276920. doi:10.1177/2455328X241276920. ISSN 2455-328X.
- ^ Beverley, H. (1872). Report of the Census of Bengal 1872. Bengal Secretariat Press. pp. 6–7.
- ^ "Census of India 2001, West Bengal, District Census Handbook, Madinipur, Series – 20, Part – A & B, Village and Town Directory, Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract" (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal. Retrieved 28 May 2021.