Tamluk

This ancient kingdom and port city was bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the south, Rupnarayan River in the east and Subarnarekha River in the west. The Rupnarayana is the joint flow of the rivers Dwarakeswar and Silai. The Bay of Bengal and these great rivers with their numerous branches created a prosperous and easy water navigational system fostering commerce, culture and early contacts with the people outside the region. At the same time, these rivers helped to develop the agriculture in this region.[5]

Archaeological remains show continuous settlement from about the 3rd century BC. It was known as Tramralipta (in the Puranas and the Mahabharata), Tamralipta (in the Mahabharata), Tamalika (in historical documents), Tamalitti (in foreigners' descriptions), or Tamoluk (in the British Raj). It was a seaport, now buried under river silt. For this reason, Tamluk has many ponds and lakes remaining today.[6][7][8]

In the Mahabharata (Bhishma Parba/Nabam Adhyay), while describing the names of the holiest rivers and kingdoms of India, Sanjay took the name of "Tramralipta" to Dhritarashtra.[9][10][5]

Tamluk was also known as Bhivas, in religious texts, and Madhya Desh, as the Middle State of Utkal/Kalinga and Banga.

According to Jain sources, Tamralipti was the capital of the tamralipti janapada and was long known as a port.[11][12][13][14]

According to 2011 Indian Census, Tamluk had a total population of 65,306, of which 33,260 were males and 32,046 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 6,180. The total number of literates in Tamluk was 53,318, which constituted 81.6% of the population with male literacy of 85.0% and female literacy of 78.1%. The effective literacy rate of population (7 years and above) of Tamluk was 90.2%, of which male literacy rate was 94.0% and female literacy rate was 86.2%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 4,441 and 201 respectively. Tamluk had 14489 households in 2011.[2]

Tamluk has two railway stations - Tamluk Junction and Sahid Matangini.

Rupnarayan Riverside Tamluk

• Rupnarayan river bank: The bank of river Rupnarayan is famous for picnic.
• Devi Barghobhima: Nearly 1150-year-old Temple of Kali named as Devi Bargobhima. This temple is a part of 51 Shakti Peethas. Puranas say that the small finger of left feet of Sati/Parvati fell here when Lord Vishnu cut the sacred Body of Goddess Sati into several pieces to pacify Lord Shiva.
• Tamluk Rajbari: Located on the outskirts of town, the old ruined royal abode of the Bhanj dynasty (Mayur/Peacock),[18] is a tourist destination.
• Rakhit Bati: It is another place to visit in Tamluk. In the beginning of 19th century it was a secret centre of the then revolutionary party Anusilan Samiti & Gupta samiti. The historian late Shri Tailakyanath Rakhit rebuilt this building.
• Geonkhali: At geonkhali river Rupnarayan joins Hooghly river.

• Khudiram Bose, young revolutionary and martyr
• Matangini Hazra, Indian independence movement revolutionary and martyr
• Satish Chandra Samanta, Indian independence movement activist and leader of Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar
• Ajoy Mukherjee, former chief minister of West Bengal.
• Sushil Kumar Dhara, Co founder of Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar of British India & after independence he also served the state government as `Industry and Commerce Minister'.
• Paresh Maity, artist.
• Mani Lal Bhaumik,[19] Indian American physicist and best-selling author

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  Khudiram Bose
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  Tamluk Junction railway station
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  Tamluk Junction Foot-over Bridge
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  Alpona at Tamluk Junction Foot-over Bridge
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  A view from foot over bridge
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  Rupnarayan river bank, Tamluk

• Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency)
• Tamralipta

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Tamluk".

• Tamluk travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Tamluk Municipality
• Purba Medinipur District Official Website
• Paschim Medinipur District Official Website
• Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya
• On temples of Midnapur