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About Malda Tourism
Malda is an important city of West Bengal situated on
the banks of the river Mahananda. It was formerly known as ?English Bazaar? as
an English factory was established here in 1771. Malda is a base for visiting the
historical sites of Gaur and Pandua. Gaur was capital to three dynasties of
ancient Bengal ? the Buddhist Palas, the Hindu
Senas and the Muslim Nawabs and has a glorious past. Pandua, once the alternate
seat of power to Gaur, has the third largest concentration of Muslim monuments
in Bengal. The MaldaMuseum
has a great collection of the region's architectural and anthropological
specimens. Malda can be reached by bus from Kolkata, Murshidabad and Siliguri,
and by train from Kolkata and New Jalpaiguri. It is the Divisional Headquarter
of the Eastern Railway and almost all trains bound for North Bengal and North
Eastern states of India
halt at Malda station. Malda is famous for its ?Fajli? mango orchards.
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