Talk:Chamurchi Duar (appellation)

Talk

Discussion for: Chamurchi Duar (appellation) • View • Links • Related changes

Use this page for verification notes, disputes, and action items. Keep narrative content on the article.

Page scope

Chamurchi Duar (appellation) is the Growing Area page for two neighbouring duars of the Western Dooars, Chamurchi and Luckee. Its extent is that of the present Nagrakata and Dhupguri blocks of Jalpaiguri District and the Madarihat block of Alipurduar District, less the Gorumara, Jaldapara and Khairbari-Deogaon growing areas.

Data verification

Record source conflicts, identifications and editorial calls here. Keep narrative content on the article.

Discussion

Scope

• Extent. None of the sources read gives the limits of the Chamurchi or Luckee duars. The border follows three modern blocks: Nagrakata (OpenStreetMap relation 10361974), Dhupguri (10361975) and Madarihat (10360505). Dhupguri is included because Chamurchi (node 6129018733) and Banarhat (node 2088368042) lie in it; OpenStreetMap has no separate Banarhat block. Totopara (node 7908848385) lies in Madarihat. Its southern part, around Dhupguri town, is plains country with no accessions yet.
• Coordinates. 26.76, 89.09 is a map centre inside the area, not a surveyed point.
• Elevation. 130–206 m is the range of the accessions' recorded altitudes (Ballalguri 130 m; the Deana tea estate 206 m).

Identifications

• Luckee and Laxmi. The sources write Luckee Dooar (Pemberton, Eden) and Luckeepoor (Bose); Hunter's 1870 pargana list has Lakshmipur. The title uses the modern form Laxmi.
• Manchee. Pemberton has the Manchee entering the plains by the Chamoorchee duar (p. 43). The article does not identify it with a modern river.
• Deana. The field report's Deana River is written Diana on some maps. The accessions from the tea estate there are named "Diana 'Tea Garden'".

Source notes

• The Torsa. The field report calls the Torsha "the western edge of the Jaldhaka corridor". The Torsa lies east of the corridor, so the article does not use the phrase.

Split (October 2026)

The page was split. Its Chamurchi part moved to Chamurchi Duar (appellation), in the Jalpaiguri Dooars growing area; Luckee (Lakhi) is now Lakhi Duar (appellation), in the Alipurduar growing area, on the Madarihat-Birpara block. The Ballalguri and Makrapara lots went with Lakhi Duar.

Border (October 2026)

The border is the Nagrakata block (OpenStreetMap relation 10361974) and Banarhat block, less the Chapramari and Gorumara forests, about 650 km². OpenStreetMap draws no Banarhat block, only the older Dhupguri block that holds both, so the Banarhat line is a provisional trace: the old block split between places of Banarhat block's gram panchayats (Chamurchi, Banarhat, Binnaguri, Salbari, Sakoajhora I) and of Dhupguri block's (Dhupguri, Barogharia, Magurmari, Gadong). Chamurchi village and Banarhat lie inside it. It should be replaced by the official block boundary when one is published.