Anksa

Kanksa is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. 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 Ga…
Kanksa is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Kanksa CD block in the Durgapur subdivision of the Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. 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.
  • Country: India
  • State: West Bengal
  • District: Paschim Bardhaman
  • PIN: 713148
  • Telephone/ STD code: 0341
  • ISO 3166 code: IN-WB
  • Lok Sabha constituency: Bardhaman-Durgapur
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