Radhanagore

Radhanagore

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locator_position = right | state_name = West Bengal
district = Hooghly
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Radhanagore is a village in Hooghly District of West Bengal, India. It is famous as the birthplace of Raja Rammohun Roy. Located near Khanakul, it is approachable from Tarakeswar or Arambag. Mundeswari river flows nearby.

The Raja’s ancestral home and ruins of the house he built at the Langulpara cremation ground are still there. A college has been established in his name in the village.

Kamarpukur, also in Hooghly District, birthplace of Sri Ramkrishna and Birsingha in Purba Medinipur, birthplace of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar are near Radhanagore.

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