Location | West Bengal, India |
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Coordinates | 22°41′52″N 88°41′18″E / 22.69778°N 88.68833°E |
Type | Settlement |
History | |
Founded | 400 BCE to 800 BCE |
Abandoned | 12th century CE |
Chandraketugarh, located in the Ganges Delta, are a cluster of villages in the 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-east of Kolkata.[1][2][3] The name Chandraketugarh comes from a local legend of a medieval king of this name. This civilization can perhaps be identified with the Gangaridai of Graeco-Roman accounts. In early historic times, Chandraketugarh was connected to the Ganga by the Bidyadhari River and must have been an important centre of trade and possibly also a political centre.[4]
The Asutosh Museum of Indian Art conducted an excavation between 1957 and 1968, which revealed relics of several historical periods,[5] although the chronological classification of the relics remains incomplete. Many of the Chandraketugarh items and terracottas are now in collections of museums in India and abroad; many of them are a part of private collections.[6]
According to the List of Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal (serial no. N-WB-1), Chandraketu's Fort is an ASI listed monument.[7]
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