Purulia II is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Purulia Sadar subdivision of the Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History Background The Jaina Bhagavati-Sutra of the 5th century AD mentions that Purulia was one of the sixteen mahajanapadas and was a part of the kingdom known as Vajra-bhumi in ancient times. In 1833, the Manbhum district was carved out of the Jungle Mahals district, with the headquarters at Manbazar. In 1838, the headquarters was transferred to Purulia. After independence, when Manbhum district was a part of Bihar, efforts were made to impose Hindi on the Bengali-speaking majority of the district and it led to the Bengali Language Movement (Manbhum). In 1956, the Manbhum district was partitioned between Bihar and West Bengal under the States Reorganization Act and the Bihar and West Bengal (Transfer of Territories) Act 1956. Geography Golamara, a constituent panchayat of Purulia II block, is located at . The Purulia II CD block is located in the central part of the district. The Kangsabati River forms the boundary between the Purulia II and Purulia I CD blocks. The upper Kangsabati basin has undulating land and the elevation rises from 200 to 300 m and the general slope is from west to east and south-east. The Purulia II CD block is bounded by the Para CD block, on the north, the Hura CD block, on the east, the Purulia I CD block on the south and a part of the west and the Chandankiyari CD block, in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand, on the west. The Purulia II CD block has an area of 310.10 km2. It has 1 panchayat samity, 9 gram panchayats, 114 gram sansads (village councils), 116 mouzas, 101 inhabited villages and 2 census towns. Purulia (Muffasil) (partly) and Purulia (Town) (partly) police stations serve this block. Headquarters of this CD Block is at Village – Bongabari, PO – Vivekanandanagar. Gram panchayats of the Purulia II block/panchayat samiti are: Agoya-Narra, Belma, Bhangra, Chhara-Dumdumi, Ghonga, Golamara, Hutmura, Pindra and Raghabpur. Demographics Population According to the 2011 Census of India, the Purulia II CD block had a total population of 169,488, of which 157,862 were rural and 11,626 were urban. There were 86,462 (51%) males and 83,026 (49%) females. There were 25,437 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The Scheduled Castes numbered 46,039