A major portion of the subdivision is part of the Dwarakeswar-Damodar inter-riverine plain with alluvial soil.

On 19 April 1900 the name of Jahanabad was changed to Arambagh, which means "the garden of ease and comfort".

[3] The ruins of a fort at Gar Mandaran provided the setting for Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Durgeshnandini, published in 1865.

[4] The Hooghly district is divided into the following administrative subdivisions:[5] Arambag subdivision has 4 police stations, 6 community development blocks, 6 panchayat samitis, 63 gram panchayats, 567 mouzas, 554 inhabited villages and 1 municipality.

Although the economy has been shifting away from agriculture, it is still the pre-dominant economic activity and the main source of livelihood for the rural people of the district.

[15] Hooghly district had a literacy rate of 81.80% as per the provisional figures of the census of India 2011.

[16] The following institutions are located in Arambagh subdivision: The table below (all data in numbers) presents an overview of the medical facilities available and patients treated in the hospitals, health centres and sub-centres in 2014 in Hooghly district.

Rural Hospitals: (Name, block, location, beds) [24] Akri Shrirampur Rural Hospital, Pursurah CD Block, Akri Shrirampur, 30 bed.