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Dalingkot Duar is the Growing Area page for the western end of the Dooars in Jalpaiguri District, east of the Teesta. Its extent is that of the present Mal and Matiali community development blocks, less the Gorumara growing area. Chapramari is a separate growing area inside it with no border of its own.
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- Extent. None of the sources read gives the limits of the Dalingkot duar. Pemberton (1838) found the limits of the western duars "most uncertain and confused" (Political Missions to Bootan, 1865, Pemberton's report p. 28). The border therefore follows two modern blocks: Mal (OpenStreetMap relation 10361972) and Matiali (10361973), with the Gorumara polygon taken out. The block list of the 2011 Census, or a pargana map in Sunder's settlement report of 1895, could replace it.
- Western limit. Pemberton has the Bengal duars running from the Teesta to the Manas (p. 28 of his report); Eden (1864) has them "between the Rivers Durlah and Monass" (p. 8 of his report). The article follows the Teesta, which Hunter (1876, p. 226) and Gruning (1911, p. 148) also give as the boundary of the Western Duars.
- Coordinates. 26.80, 88.69 is a map centre inside the area, not a surveyed point.
- Elevation. 91–207 m is the range of the accessions' recorded altitudes (Lataguri 91 m; Bagrakote 207 m), the collection-range basis used for other growing areas.
- Lataguri. The four Lataguri accessions lie 0.8–2.9 km outside the Gorumara forest polygon, in the Mal block, and are placed here.
Identifications
- Modern places. OpenStreetMap has a settlement "Dalingkote Tea Garden" (node 7605288788, 26.917 N 88.722 E) and Kranti (node 7688079743) inside the Mal block, and a village Daling (node 8974969402) in the Gorubathan hills to the north. None of these is equated on the article with the duar or with Bose's Kyrantee.
- Kyrantee. Bose's account puts "the Túma or Collector of Kyrantee" under the Soubah of Darlingcote (p. 193). The article does not identify Kyrantee with a modern place.
- Durlah. Pemberton has the Durlah entering the plains by the pass of Darlingcote (p. 43). Hunter uses "Dharla" for the Torsa in Cooch Behar and "Dhallá" for a left-bank tributary of the Teesta (p. 226). The article does not identify the Durlah with a modern river.
- Spelling. The title follows Hunter (1876) and Gruning (1911), who write Dalingkot for the fort. Pemberton's original report has Dalimkote; the 1865 reprint and Bose have Darlingcote; Eden has Dalimcote.