Kanksa

Key facts

Settlement.name: Kanksa
Settlement.settlement_type: Census Town
Settlement.pushpin_map: India West Bengal#India3
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in West Bengal, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: West Bengal
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Paschim Bardhaman
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 8.66
Settlement.population_total: 23,789
Settlement.population_as_of: 2011
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.demographics_type1: Languages
Settlement.demographics1_title1: Official
Settlement.demographics1_info1: Bengali, English
Settlement.timezone1: IST

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Wikidata facts

Population: 23789
Elevation: 62
Households: 5076

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male population: 12406
illiterate population: 5797
literate population: 17992
female population: 11383
Commons category: Kanksa

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History
Geography
Location
Urbanisation
Gram panchayats
Civic administration
Police station
CD block HQ
Demographics
Infrastructure
Transport
Education
Healthcare
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Kanksa is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

== History== The name Kankasha comes from the name of Sadgope king Kanka Sen Rai.Who fought in the Battlefield against Bakhtiar's commander Saiyad Bukhari. As per Peterson's District Gazeteer of 1910, the south-western extremity of the Sadgop kingdom of Gopbhum was held by two kinglings, probably merely cadets of the house of Gopbhum, at Bharatpur and Kankeswar or Kanksa.