Bolpur is a city and a municipality in Birbhum district in the state of West Bengal, India.

It is 150 km north of Kolkata and is famous for Visva Bharati, the University set up by the Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore.

In his worship of gratitude, Raja Surath organised the sacrificial slaughtering of one lakh goats.

As a result, the name of place where the sacrificial offerings were made became ‘Bolipur’ – with time it became Bolpur.

Many villages named Sian, Dihipara, Khoskadampur, Paruldanga, Goalpara, Ballavpur, Bandhgara, Surul, Supur, Raipur were the boundary line around Bolpur.

East India company established the first railway line in 1859, when the Sahebganj loopline was extended beyond the river Ajay.

Maharshi Debendranath Tagore established a centre of religious mediation in Bolpur.

Provincial names proved the upcoming gradual development of Bolpur.

Kachharipatti is just beside court house, Trishulapatti is the commercial paddy trading centre.

Bijaykrishna Ghoswami, Shivnath Shastri, Shasibhusan Basu and others gave religious advice.

[5][6] The climate of Shantiniketan is moderately warm, with summer temperatures at around 35-42 °C (maximum) and winter at 7-15 °C (minimum).

June, July, August and September see heavy rainfall, these four months are known as monsoon (rainy season) with dry humid.

[11] Former Loksabha Speaker Late Somnath Chatterjee had been an elected parliamentarian from 1985 till 2009 from Bolpur constituency.

He was preceded by Late Saradish Roy another veteran parliamentarian from Communist Party of India (Marxist).

The station is well connected to the major cities, specially state capital Kolkata.

Apart from West Bengal, the station connected to cities of other states like Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

[21] Pathyasathi Ayurveda Sonajhuri, Santiniketan has 30 beds,an ayurvedic hospital in collaboration with Dhanwanthari Vaidyasala.

[citation needed] • Ballabhpur Wildlife Sanctuary & Deer Park (Santiniketan)