Bhagalpur- The Silk City of India

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Bhagalpur- The Silk City of India
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• Situated in the eastern region of Bihar, the
  city of Bhagalpur is best known for producing and
  distributing high quality silk to the rest of the
  country. The city's production of Tussar sarees
  and Tussar silk have made their deep mark in the
  International markets. Apart from silk, the city
  also harbours large reserves of sugar and rice.
  The city which is located at 141 feet above the
  level of the sea is said to be the capital of the
  kingdom, Anga which was under the reign of Karna,
  the great warrior from the Mahabharata times.

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• Bhagalpur railway station
• There is no dearth of transportation
  facilities which connects this city to the other
  parts of the country and vice versa. The major
  railway station here is the Bhagalpur Junction
  railway station, which is located on the
  Howrah-Kuil loop. This is believed to be the
  third busiest railway station in the state of
  Bihar. The railway line connects to the major
  cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Surat,
  Kanpur, Guwhati and Bangalore. The food delivery
  in train facilities are present at this railway
  station. You can easily order food in BHAGALPUR
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• Bhagalpur cuisine
• The genuine Bihari cuisines forms the major
  cuisine of Bhagalpur thus the food is hot as
  well as spicy. The popular cuisine includes kadhi
  bari, choora, ghugni and khichdi. The sweet
  dishes popular in this city are tilkut, peda,
  balushahi, malpua, rabri and churna.

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• Bhagalpur culture
• The Bhagalpur city has a rich and an antique
  cultural past which it is still preserving. A
  vast variations in monuments, paintings,
  artifacts, music, folk dance forms and folklores
  can be witnessed here. A number of renowned
  writers, poets, artists and musicians hail from
  this city. The variations in the art forms as
  observed in different eras in the past is
  refreshed for the onlookers in the Bhagalpur
  Museum which contains the cultural
  representations of the past. Paika and Jhijhian
  happen to be one of the oldest and major dance
  form of this region. A number of folk songs are
  performed by the women of this region and the
  major ones are Ropni and Kazri. Bishahri Puja is
  one of the major festival celebrated here where
  the women sing folk songs and worship goddess
  Bishahari.

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