West Bengal is India's 12th largest state. West Bengal is the gateway to the beautiful north eastern states of India where the visitor can only gaze in wonder at the pristine beauty. Its capital was once the capital of the British empire, that is Calcutta remains the cultural capital of India with a strong tradition in litrature and fine arts. West Bengal's beautiful buildings haven't been eclipsed by high reises. The total area of West Bengal is 88,853 sq kms. West Bengal covers the bottleneck of India in the east, stretching from the Himalayas in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. Countries that share international boundaries with West Bengal include Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal while Sikkim, Assam, Orissa and Bihar frame its domestic borders.
History :
West Bengal is India's 12th largest state. The state stretches from the foothills of Himalayas in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south. Gopal Krishna Gokhale once said What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow." And Bengal, can be perhaps be justifiably proud of producing men and women whose ideas helped to shape modern India. Ram Mohan Roy, lswarchandra Vidyasagar, Ramkrishna and Vivekanand, spearheaded social and religious movements, Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Madhusudan Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore among others ushered in an era of new literature. A movement to evolve a true ' Indian art form' found its expression in Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandlal Bose, Jamini Roy and others. Proscenium theatre came into the country with Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali and the new wave in Indian Cinema began. In this land India's freedom movement found some of the great sons like Sir Suren Banerjee, C. R. Das, Netaji Bose, Maulana Azad, as it drew inspiration from Rishi Aurobindo. Bengal is a proud land of five Nobel Laureates (Tagore, Raman, Ronald Ross, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen).
Cities of West Bengal
Darjeeling, Siliguri, Kolkata / Calcutta, Mirik.
Tourist Attraction of West Bengal :
Kolkata
Famous for Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum, Eden Gardens
Darjeeling
Famous for Tiger Hill, Kanchenjunga Views, Bhutia Busty Gompa.
