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in Bhutan. It is a predominantly rural area, with 79.38% of the population living in rural areas. The district has one municipal town and 20 census towns; 20.62% of the population lives in urban areas. The scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, taken together, form more than half the population in
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was alerted to the conditions of the Buxa refugee camps, and it became apparent that the
Tibetan refugees would have to be relocated to a more hospitable place. Initially reluctant, a message from the Dalai Lama, urging them to think of the future and to strive for sufficiency, and the option of
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179:; only a few hundred of over 10,000 monks escaped to India. These expatriate monks, representing diverse Tibetan orders, first set up a monastic study center and refugee camp in Buxa Fort, on the grounds of the jungle-bound former prison camp.
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leader and ex-law minister of West Bengal, Amar Prasad
Chakraborty, was also imprisoned at Buxa Fort in 1943, as were some communist revolutionaries and intellectuals like Nirad Chakraborty, Shibshankar Mitra and Satish Pakrashi. The poet
106:. The British reconstructed the fort from a bamboo wood structure to a stone structure. The fort was later used as a high-security prison and detention camp in the 1930s; it was the most notorious and unreachable prison in India after the
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Yugantar groups, such as Krishnapada Chakraborty, were imprisoned there in the 1930s. Poet Rabindranath Tagore wrote a poem to lift the morale of the prisoners kept in this forest prison.
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all the six community development blocks in the district. There is a high concentration of tribal people (scheduled tribes) in the three northern blocks of the district.
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CT: census town, R: rural/ urban centre, N: neighbourhood, A: Air Force
Station, NP: national park/ wildlife sanctuary, TE: tea estate, H: historical site
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View of Buxa Fort used as Bengal Native
Infantry barracks and later as prison camp by the British Government. India used it as camp for Tibetan refugees.
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Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
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Places and tea estates in the eastern portion of
Alipurdar subdivision (including Kalchini, Kumargram and Alipuduar II CD blocks) in Alipurduar district
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The
British, invited by the Cooch King, intervened and captured the fort. It was formally handed over to the British on November 11, 1865 as part of the
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was also imprisoned there in the 1950s. He gave a vivid description of this jail in one of his stories, âPrison in the Cloudsâ (
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The fort's origin is uncertain. Before the occupation of the fort by the
British, it was a point of contention between the
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settling near other
Tibetan refugees, convinced the monks to move. In 1971, the monks left Buxa Fort for new locations at
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1007:"About The Re-establishment of Drepung Gomang Monastic University in India"
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The following routes are popular among tourists and nature lovers â
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Singh, Nagendra (1978). "Appendix VII â The Treaty of Sinchula".
27:) is located at an altitude of 867 metres (2,844 ft) in the
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1112:"District Census Handbook, Jalpaiguri, Series 20, Part XIIA"
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Santalabari to Roopang valley 14 kilometres (8.7 mi)
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annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China
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Buxa Fort to Rovers point 3 kilometres (1.9 mi)
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Santalabari to Buxa Fort 5 kilometres (3.1 mi)
1481:Cities, towns and locations in Alipurduar district
1092:. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India
1090:2011 census: West Bengal â District-wise CD blocks
845:Buxa Fort to Chunabhati 4 kilometres (2.5 mi)
1086:"CD block Wise Primary Census Abstract Data(PCA)"
842:Buxa Fort to Lepchakha 5 kilometres (3.1 mi)
1121:. Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal
1060:"District Statistical Handbook 2014 Jalpaiguri"
114:. Nationalist revolutionaries belonging to the
62:used the fort to protect territory connecting
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981:"West Bengal Forest Development Corporation"
1522:Tourist attractions in Alipurduar district
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1119:Census of India 2011, page 13 Physiography
938:Grace Assembly of God Church Santalabari
54:. It is 30 kilometres (19 mi) from
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74:. During the unrest in the
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853:Buxa Fort picture gallery
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1207:Jaldapara National Park
147:) in his Bengali book (
1517:Museums in West Bengal
1257:Alipurduar subdivision
926:Buxa Fort stone tablet
792:26.7549611; 89.5802889
171:Tibetan refugee crisis
144:MÄghÄra gÄáēÄ jÄlakhÄnÄ
40:Alipurduar subdivision
1512:Forts in West Bengal
125:Subhash Mukhopadhyay
1403:Alipurduar Junction
1167:Alipurduar district
1036:"Buxa Refugee Camp"
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421:Kumargram TE
349:Torsha River
324:Raydak River
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790: /
693:Mechiabasti
329:Sakos River
164:ÄmÄra bÄnlÄ
92:Cooch Kings
48:West Bengal
25:āĻŦāĻā§āĻ¸āĻž āĻĻā§āĻ°ā§āĻ
1501:Categories
1238:Alipurduar
1021:2014-04-29
966:2011-08-25
944:References
710:Laskarpara
557:Alipurduar
523:Jashodanga
339:Dima River
153:āĻāĻŽāĻžāĻ° āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻž
56:Alipurduar
1465:Madarihat
1445:Kumargram
1408:Buxa Road
1355:Transport
1290:Kumargram
1187:Buxa Fort
878:Buxa Fort
866:Buxa Fort
813:Himalayas
676:Samuktala
659:Sobhaganj
489:Kumargram
455:Raimatang
404:Sankos TE
394:Buxa Fort
354:Chilapata
199:Geography
189:Bylakuppe
158:romanized
138:romanized
31:, in the
17:Buxa Fort
1474:See also
1460:Falakata
1450:Kalchini
1331:Jaldhaka
1285:Kalchini
1280:Falakata
825:Trekking
764:Location
574:Hasimara
540:Kalchini
290:Madhu TG
90:and the
36:CD block
33:Kalchini
1346:Kaljani
1175:General
1125:18 June
1096:29 June
1070:29 June
727:Jaigaon
506:Jayanti
377:Reserve
193:Mundgod
160::
149:Bengali
140::
129:Bengali
112:Andaman
82:History
42:of the
38:in the
21:Bengali
1372:NH 317
1341:Torsha
1336:Teesta
1326:Dharla
1319:Rivers
1197:Dooars
1169:topics
809:Dooars
356:Forest
314:Forest
312:Raydak
230:5miles
72:Bhutan
70:, via
1377:NH 27
1367:NH 31
1362:NH 17
1217:Terai
1115:(PDF)
1044:9 May
1039:(PDF)
991:9 May
375:Tiger
68:India
66:with
64:Tibet
52:India
1127:2020
1098:2020
1072:2020
1046:2012
993:2012
373:Buxa
191:and
382:NPV
228:8km
167:).
110:in
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732:CT
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409:TE
361:NP
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275:T
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