Shantipur

Shantipur, also written Santipur, is a city and municipality in the Ranaghat subdivision of the Nadia district of the Indian state of West Bengal. Its fort area, known as Daak-Garh, is thought to have been built by Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia. The city stands at an average elevation of about 15 metres on the alluvial Krishnanagar-Santipur Plain east of the Hooghly River, which is locally called the Bhagirathi, and it has long been famous for handloom sarees. After the partition of India many weavers came from Dhaka and settled in the Phulia area. At the 2011 census the Santipur urban agglomeration had 288,718 residents.