Madhupur, Deoghar 4.42

Madhupur is a town with municipality in Deoghar district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is a subdivisional town.GeographyMadhupur is at. It has an average elevation of 228m. Madhupur is surrounded by two monsoon rivers, Pathro Nadi and Jayanti Nadi. They feed the Ajay, which is a tributary of the Ganges, meeting it at Katwa in West Bengal.VisitorsFrom 1910 to 1970, a virtual Who's Who of Calcutta visited this little town during the summer, Durga Pooja and Christmas vacations. Deb Narayan Kundu, GS/O Bijoy Narayan Kundu of Itachuna, Hooghly, Bengal built 32 holiday bungalows for the use of "changers" from Calcutta. The "changers" from Calcutta rarely got to use them, as most of them were taken on long leases mainly by retired people. Most eminent citizens of Bengal built their own places. Gangaprasad House built by Sir Ashutosh Mookerjee (Banglar Bagh!) was a veritable palace.Capt Debendra Chandra Mazumdar from Netrokona, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, was a famous physician who lived here from 1945 till his death in the late 1960s. The much-admired Uma Prasad Mookerjee, third son of Sir Ashutosh, spent a quarter of his time here and did much of his writing here.Another eminent personality was Nitya Gopal Roy (of Hooghly), Retd DM from Bengal. He had been a sub-tenant of Capt D C Mazumdar at No. 15 Kundu Bungalow.Ashwini Kumar Chattoraj was the government-appointed municipal administrator during the mid-60s. Dr Pande (Father of Shanti) was the BDO vet around that time. After their transfers the town gradually slipped into poor decay. This is sad for a town whose municipality, covering Lal Garh, Khalasi Mahalla, Bahanno Bigha, Pathar Chapti, Meena Bazar, Shekhpura, Barbad, Kushma and Kundu Bungalow, was inaugurated by a young lawyer from South Africa, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1910.