Jagatdal

Jagatdal জগদ্দল Jagaddal
Town
Jagaddal railway station
Nickname(s): জগদ্দল
Jagatdal Location in West Bengal, India
Coordinates: 22°51′N 88°23′E / 22.85°N 88.38°E / 22.85; 88.38Coordinates: 22°51′N 88°23′E / 22.85°N 88.38°E / 22.85; 88.38
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
Elevation	15 m (49 ft)
Languages
• Official	Bengali, English, Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Lok Sabha constituency	Barrackpore
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Jagatdal
Website	north24parganas.nic.in

Jagatdal is a town and police station under Barrackpore subdivision in North 24 Parganas district, on the banks of the Ganges river in the state of West Bengal, India. Situated on the eastern banks of the river, the town has many jute mills. The town is administratively part of Bhatpara Municipality. The town has an Indian Army base workshop (No-507).

We can find the name of jagaddal as a village as long as 460 years ago in written records but the place is thought to be more 100 to 150 years older or maybe even much more than that. Bipradas Pipalai (1545 AD) in his work "Manasha Mangal" tells us through his protagonist character "Chand Sadagar" about Jagatdal. "Chand Saudagar mentions in his "Kabi Kankan Chandi", Jagaddal as one of the places passed by him in his voyage down the Bhagirathi (the Hooghly) and where he saw many palatial buildings built by Brahmins and Kayasthas. Haldars were the most prominent Brahmins the others being Chakrabarties and Pakrasis.. Deys were the most renowned Kayastha family."

Pratapaditya (1561–1611 CE),The kayastha king and zamindar of Jessore made a couple of trenches and a fort at Jagatdal alongwith Mulajore,present day Shyamnagar as his military establishment against Muslim invaders.

According to Bengal District Gazetteers: 24-Parganas ,circa 1914 "In Jagatdal the lines of two moats and two large tanks are reputed to be the remains of a fort erected by Pratapaditya in the sixteenth century".

Jagaddal was a village in between Mulajore and Bhatpara of veda-educated, high in culture bengali people before industrialization by East India Co.