# Kogram

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Village in West Bengal

Kogram Village Kogram Location in West Bengal, India Show map of West Bengal Kogram Kogram (India) Show map of India Coordinates: 23°32′20″N 87°53′53″E / 23.53889°N 87.89806°E / 23.53889; 87.89806 State West Bengal District Purba Bardhaman Languages • Official Bengali Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST) Website purbabardhaman.gov.in

**Kogram** is a village in [Mongalkote](/source/Mongalkote) [CD block](/source/Community_development_block_in_India) in [Katwa subdivision](/source/Katwa_subdivision) of [Purba Bardhaman district](/source/Purba_Bardhaman_district) in [West Bengal](/source/West_Bengal), [India](/source/India).

## History

Ajay from Mangalchandi temple

According to [Binoy Ghosh](/source/Binoy_Ghosh), Kogram is located at the confluence of the [Ajay](/source/Ajay_River) and the [Kunur](/source/Kunur_River). The Ajay has been eating up parts of Kogram and pushing it back. In olden days Ujani or Ujaninagar (not to be confused with [Ujjaini](/source/Ujjaini)) covered a much bigger area, covering present day Kogram, [Mongalkote](/source/Mongalkote) and surrounding areas. [Kabikankan Mukundaram](/source/Kabikankan_Mukundaram_Chakrabarti) (16th century poet), in his [Chandimangal](/source/Chandimangal), as well as other poets of the era, have spoken of the fortified Ujani, its king Vikramkesari and its merchants. Ujani was the home of Dhanapati Sadagar. It was also the paternal home of [Behula](/source/Behula) of [Manasamangal](/source/Manasamangal) fame. In the olden days, many merchants lived in the riverine territory now a part of [Purba Bardhaman](/source/Purba_Bardhaman_district) and [Hooghly](/source/Hooghly_district) districts, with easy access to the port-town of [Saptagram](/source/Saptagram). Around 700 merchants are said to have come to Ujani to attend the last rites Dhanapati Sadagar’s father. The merchants had close links and were mostly centered around Karjana and Saptagram.[1]

Binoy Ghosh says that it is thought that the merchant class had operated from this riverine territory for around fifteen hundred years and the merchant families amassed enormous wealth. It was a common practice to anchor or submerge the boats in ‘Bhramarar Daha’ when not in use. They used to sail to far off lands. Dhanapati Sadagar had sailed to what is present day [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka), and when he did not return for a long time, his son, Srimanta Sadagar, set sail in search of him. Life in the region was affected with the changing course of rivers and the arrival of European merchants.[1]

See also - [Kasba](/source/Kasba%2C_Bardhaman) for Champaknagari of [Chand Sadagar](/source/Chand_Sadagar) and [Manasamangal](/source/Manasamangal) fame.

## Geography

8km
5miles

**T**

Ajay River

**S**

Hooghly River

**H**

Jajigram

**H**

Kshirgram

**C**

Bankapasi

**H**

Karui

**H**

Sribati

**H**

Kogram

**H**

Uddharanpur

**R**

Srikhanda

**R**

Singot

**R**

Chandrapur

**R**

Gangatikuri

**R**

Kandra

**R**

Nutanhat

**R**

Ketugram

**R**

Mongalkote

**CT**

Panuhat

**M**

Dainhat

**M**

Katwa

**Cities and towns in the Katwa subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district**
M: municipal city/ town, CT: census town, R: rural/ urban centre, H: historical place/ religious and/ or cultural centre, C: craft centre.
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly

### Location

It is located at [23°32′20″N 87°53′53″E / 23.53889°N 87.89806°E / 23.53889; 87.89806](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Kogram&params=23_32_20_N_87_53_53_E_).

### Urbanisation

88.44% of the population of Katwa subdivision live in rural areas. Only 11.56% of the population live in urban areas.[2] The map alongside show some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

## Demographics

As per the [2011 Census of India](/source/2011_Census_of_India) Kogram had a total population of 383, of which 209 (55%) were males and 174 (45%) were females. Population below 6 years was 46. The total number of literates in Kogram was 219 (64.99% of the population over 6 years).[3]

## Culture

[Kumud Ranjan Mullick](/source/Kumud_Ranjan_Mullick), a notable [Bengali writer and poet](/source/Bengali_literature), was born at Kogram on 3 March 1882, and wrote many of his poems there. He was a teacher at Mathrun School located nearby. Lochan Das, author of [Chaitanya Mangala](/source/Chaitanya_Mangala) (16th century), was born at Kogram. There is a memorial temple in the village.[4][5]

Mangalchandi temple

Kogram is a sakti peetha and is famous for the temple of goddess [Chandi](/source/Chandi).[6]

It is said that a piece of the right arm-bend of Sati fell at Kogram and it is considered one of the fifty one shakti peethas.[7]

As in other parts of neighbouring rural Bengal, in the Ujani-Kogram area also, the non-Aryan content in the regional religious practices were predominant. There was conflict and gradual assimilation of other schools of thought. At one point of time [Buddhist](/source/Buddhism) [tantric](/source/Tantra) practices and [Jainism](/source/Jainism) must have prevailed at Ujani. In the temple of Chandi there is an ancient idol of [Gautam Buddha](/source/Gautam_Buddha). Earlier, there was also an idol of Jain [tirthankara](/source/Tirthankara) [Shantinatha](/source/Shantinatha) – it was taken away and is now at [Bangiya Sahitya Parishad](/source/Bangiya_Sahitya_Parishad) in Kolkata.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-binoyghosh_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-binoyghosh_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-binoyghosh_1-2) Ghosh, Binoy, *Paschim Banger Sanskriti*, (in Bengali), part I, 1976 edition, page 190-203, Prakash Bhaban

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["District Statistical Handbook 2014 Bardhaman"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190121045803/http://www.wbpspm.gov.in/publications/District%20Statistical%20Handbook). *Table 2.2*. Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of West Bengal. Archived from [the original](http://wbpspm.gov.in/publications/District%20Statistical%20Handbook) on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-census3-2011_3-0)** ["2011 Census – Primary Census Abstract Data Tables"](http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/pcadata/Houselisting-housing-WB.html). *West Bengal – District-wise*. Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 20 March 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Wikimapia_4-0)** ["Location of Kogram"](http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=23.538504&lon=87.896644&z=17&m=b&show=/1136896/Kogram-Residence-of-famous-Poet-Kumudranjan-Mallik). Wikimapia. Retrieved 19 September 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Chattopadhyay, Akkori, *Bardhaman Jelar Itihas O Lok Sanskriti* (History and Folk lore of Bardhaman District.), (in Bengali), Vol II, p 621, Radical Impression. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [81-85459-36-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-85459-36-3)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Purba Bardhaman district"](http://purbabardhaman.gov.in/general_info/tourism.php). *Tourism*. District Administration. Retrieved 18 February 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Chattopadhyay, Akkori, *Bardhaman Jelar Itihas O Lok Sanskriti* (History and Folk lore of Bardhaman District.), (in Bengali), Vol II, pages 587, Radical Impression. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [81-85459-36-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-85459-36-3)

## External links

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