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A person with two water buffalo stands in a flooded rice paddy, surrounded by green fields and trees, with thatched-roof houses in the background in Bankura, West Bengal, India.
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Bankura, city, western West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies on a densely populated alluvial plain just north of the Dhaleshwari (Dhalkisor) River (known locally as the Dwarkeswar River, a tributary of the Damodar River to the east), about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Durgapur. Bankura was constituted a municipality in 1869. It is a major rail and road junction northwest of Kolkata (Calcutta) and is an agricultural distribution centre. Rice and oilseed milling,...

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