Kanksa

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. Kanksa is home to one of the oldest police stations in the area. In 1847, when Raniganj was constituted as a separate subdivision of Bardhaman district, it had three police stations under its jurisdiction - Raniganj, Kanksa and Neamatpur. The Rarheswar Shiva temple in Arra, within Kanksa police station area, is an old one of the "nagara style " category. There also is a suggestion that there possibly was an ancient city at this place.

Geography

Kanksa is located at . According to the 2011 census, 79.22% of the population of the Durgapur subdivision was urban and 20.78% was rural. The sole municipal corporation in the Durgapur subdivision is located at Durgapur and the subdivision has 38 (+1 partly) census towns (partly presented in the map alongside; all places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map). Gram panchayats under Kanksa Panchayat Samiti are: Bidbihar, Molandighi, Gopalpur, Bonkati, Tilakchandrapur, Kanksa and Amlajore.

Most-observed species

• Black Drongo

  Dicrurus macrocercus Vieillot, 1817 · Aves
  350
• Red-vented Bulbul

  Pycnonotus cafer (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  335
• Spotted Dove

  Spilopelia chinensis (Scopoli, 1786) · Aves
  333
• Common Myna

  Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  295
• Jungle Babbler

  Turdoides striata (Dumont, 1823) · Aves
  295
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  275
• Asian Pied Starling

  Gracupica contra (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  245
• Rufous Treepie

  Dendrocitta vagabunda (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  244

Most recent

• M 4 — 2020-04-08
  22 km NNW of B?nkura, India
• M 4.7 — 2019-05-26
  18 km W of B?nkura, India
• M 4.5 — 2018-08-28
  6 km ENE of Gh?t?l, India
• M 4.5 — 2015-12-15
  6 km E of Gobindpur, India
• M 4.2 — 2008-11-08
  14 km NNE of Durgapur, India
• M 4.3 — 2008-02-06
  16 km NW of Beli?tor, India