Dhuliyan is a municipality town in the Samserganj block of Jangipur subdivision of Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India.

[2] Dhuliyan has been mentioned as an inland water transport (IWT) trading point between Murshidabad and the city of Rajshahi in Bangladesh.

Low-cost barges could ply the Ganges river, called Padma in downstream Bangladesh, exchanging goods and reducing smuggling.

The site of Dhuliyan town was an important commercial centre during East India Company rule.

These factories were attacked by the ryots from Dhoolean (Dhuliyan) and Kassemnuggur (Kashimnagar) during the Indigo revolt in Bengal.

[2] Prior to 1909, Dhulian was an important ferry point rural settlement which was originally located on the right bank of the Hooghly.

It gradually became a river-mart of the district, being a seat of a large trade in biri, jute, rice, bellmetal, and other agricultural produces.

The river-road transport stimulated the growth of the settlement and it was declared as urban centre during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Again this new site was exposed to the threatening by erosion between 1948 and 1952 when a considerable portion of the town including the main bazar and railway station were washed away.

Dhuliyan is surrounded by Farakka (to the north), Aurangabad (to the South) Pakur (to the West) and Ganga River - (to the East).

The subdivision is located in the Rarh region that is spread over from adjoining Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand.

[8] Murshidabad district shares with Bangladesh a porous international border which is notoriously crime prone (partly shown in this map).

[16][17] In August 2020, this region again faced erosion which washed away dwelling places, temples, schools, litchi and mango orchards and agricultural lands along the right bank nearly after 50 years.

The protected water-supply involved overhead tank, tap water from untreated source, hand pump.

Among the medical facilities it had 1 hospital, 5 dispensaries/ health centres, 2 charitable hospitals/ nursing homes, 23 medicine shops.

It had 4 recognised shorthand, typewriting & vocational training institutes, 1 non-formal education centre (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan).

Some people are engaged in running business of wholesale & retail sale of articles like cloth, readymade garments, bedding, furniture, hardware goods and utensils made of bell metal, steel and aluminum.

Pakur is another railway station at a distance of 25 km from this place in Jharkhand state from where a number trains are available connecting Kolkata viz.

It is a no-fuss river town where one does not have to be pressurized by the regular tourist hassle but can enjoy the riverside activities like boating & fishing and long river-walks.