Arambagh

Arambagh, also spelled Arambag, is a town and municipality in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal, and the headquarters of the Arambagh subdivision. It lies on the bank of the Dwarakeswar River at an average elevation of about 15 metres, on a state highway roughly 81 kilometres north-west of Kolkata. The 2011 Census of India counted 66,175 residents. The subdivision was formed in 1879 as Jahanabad Sub-Division and took the name Arambagh, glossed as the garden of ease and comfort, on 19 April 1900. The surrounding economy rests on rice and potato farming, with rice mills and cold storages, and the town has public libraries, schools and several colleges.