The Ṣaṇḍeśvar Shiva temple of Cooch Behar, a historical perspective .
Author - Biswarup Chatterjee. The north-western part of present-day Bangladesh and Northern part of West Bengal is generally known as the North Bengal region. The Bangladesh part denotes the Rajshahi and Rangpur division. In general, it refers to the region north of the Padma river and west of the Jamuna river. The West Bengal Part denotes the Jalpaiguri division and the Malda division together. Now this Jalpaiguri division consists of five districts viz., Alipurduar, CoochBehar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Kalimpong. Among these, one of the most popular as well as prosperous district is CoochBehar district, which is situated on the North-Eastern border of West Bengal and broadly surrounded by the Jalpaiguri to the north, Assam and Bangladesh to the east, Bangladesh and Jalpaiguri to the south and Jalpaiguri to the west. Cooch Behar district belongs to Jalpaiguri Presidency under the state of West Bengal. The Tista, Jaldhaka, Torsa, Kaljani, and Ridak etc are ...