Jalpaiguri Tours is the district town, a municipality and the Civil Division in North Bengal with a population of more than 150,000 against a total population of 3,400,000 in the entire district. Situated on the right bank of the Tista River Jalpaiguri Tour Packages said to be derived its name from olive (Jalpai) tree, which were last seen growing here in late 1900. The Karala River divides the town into two parts and connected with few small beautifully laid bridges. Tour Packages Jalpaiguri is a picturesque town having several avenue shaded by huge trees. A glimpse of snow-clad peaks of Kanchanjangha Mountains can be viewed from the town. A big well-maintained park by the side of Karala River is a nice place to spend some leisure hours among the fresh environment. Boating in the gentle Karala River upto the confluence of Tista can be a nice experience. You can find more details of Tour to Jalpaiguri in www.holidaymasti.com.
History:
Jalpaiguri was initially founded as a trading centre, as the origins of its name suggests. The Jalpaiguri Tours Indiamay come from the Bhutanese term je-le-pe-go-ri, which means 'a place where warm clothes are bought and sold'. Others attribute the name to the more common Bengali term jôlpai "olive" and thus the name meaning "town of olives".
For some time, the town was capital of the Raikats of Baikunthapur. The town was part of the Duars area of the old Kamarupa and later the Bhutanese kingdoms, which was later annexed by the British in 1864. They divided the captured area into two parts and merged the eastern half into the Goalpara district (now in Assam) and converted the western half into a new district of Western Duars and then in 1869, it was reorganised and renamed to Jalpaiguri, with Jalpaiguri town becoming the district headquarters.
The town saw its main boom period during the late 19th and early 20th century, when the British found the region north-east of the town (called the Dooars region), near the foothills of the Bhutan hills very suitable for tea cultivation. Within a very small period the area was dotted with thousands of tea gardens, with Jalpaiguri Tour Packages India town becoming the port-of-call for all going to those gardens. People flocked to the town to lay their hands on a part of the lucrative tea-trade. This resulted in the cosmopolitan nature of the town, with people from many parts of the country settling there. Business boomed and the town established itself as the premier commercial and cultural hub of the northern Bengal region. It also helped that the town was well connected with Kolkata (then Calcutta), as it lay on the main Railway link between Calcutta and Darjeeling.
The British had their own little spots in and around the town. The Jalpaiguri Club, the Race Course (now defunct), the beautiful bungalows along the banks of the Teesta and the Karala and the defunct airport at Panga, close to the town, bear testimony to this fact.
It is amazing how Jalpaiguri still retained most of its colonial character even fifty-plus years after independence. The core town possibly resembles more or less the same as it was during the end of the British rule. A walk along the Teesta beside the stately bungalows, built by the British, now housing the Government officials, would evoke the same feelings. A visit to the beautiful parks and gardens along the banks of the Karala gives peace to the strained city-dweller. This is colonial Bengal in all its glory.
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