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{{Short description|Village in Sahebganj}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
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| name = Kankjol
| settlement_type = Village
| pushpin_map = India Jharkhand#India
| coordinates = {{coord|24.796|87.813|display=title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Community development block|Block]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Jharkhand]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Sahibganj district|Sahibganj]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Barharwa (community development block)|Barharwa]]
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'''Kankjol''' is a village in [[Barharwa (community development block)|Barharwa]] block of [[Sahibganj district]], [[Jharkhand]]. An old town dating back at least to the 1100s, Kankjol was a provincial capital under the [[Sena dynasty]] and later was the seat of a [[pargana]] under the [[Mughal Empire]]. As of 2011, it has a population of 2,501 people, in 514 households.

== History ==
[[Hiranand Sastri]], [[Kashinath Narayan Dikshit]], and [[N. P. Chakravarti]] identified Kankjol with ''Kaṅkagrāma'', eponymous capital of the Kaṅkagrāmabhukti division of the [[Sena dynasty]]. This ''[[bhukti]]'' (province) is first attested {{circa}} 1183 in the [[Shaktipur]] grant of [[Lakshmanasena]]. The grant states that Uttara Rāḍhā, (what is now the northern [[Rarh]] region), was part of Kaṅkagrāmabhukti According to [[Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly]], the province seems to have been a recent creation at that point, likely reflecting recent conquests under Lakshmanasena. Uttara Rāḍhā (what is now the northern [[Rarh]] region), mentioned as part of the [[Bardhaman|Vardhamāna]] ''bhukti'' just a few years prior, is mentioned in the Shaktipur grant as part of Kaṅkagrāmabhukti; it seems to have formed the southern part of the new province, with the [[Ajay River]] marking the boundary between the Kaṅkagrāma and Vardhamāna provinces. Kaṅkagrāmabhukti also seems to have encompassed the present-day [[Santhal Pargana division]] and [[Bhagalpur district]] in the northwest.<ref name="Ganguly 1931">{{cite book |last1=Ganguly |first1=Dhirendra Chandra |editor1-last=Sastri |editor1-first=Hirananda |editor1-link=Hiranand Sastri |editor2-last=Dikshit |editor2-first=K. N. |editor2-link=Kashinath Narayan Dikshit |editor3-last=Chakravarti |editor3-first=N. P. |editor3-link=N. P. Chakravarti |title=Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXI |date=1931 |pages=211-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.56981/page/n277 |access-date=26 October 2024 |chapter=Saktipur Copper-Plate Grant of Lakshmanasena}}</ref>{{rp|213-4}}

[[John Beames]] identified Kānjkol with the "Kánakjok" of the ''[[Ain-i Akbari]]'', which is listed as a ''[[Mahallah|mahal]]'' in [[sarkar (administrative division)|sarkar]] [[Tanda, Bengal|Tanda]].<ref name="Beames 1896">{{cite journal |last1=Beames |first1=John |author1-link=John Beames |title=Notes on Akbar's Súbahs, with Reference to the Aín-i Akbarí |journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1896 |issue=Jan. 1896 |pages=83–136 |jstor=25207777 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25207777 |access-date=5 June 2023}}</ref>{{rp|96}} This ''mahal'' was listed with an assessed revenue of 1,589,332 [[dam (Indian coin)|dam]]s.<ref name="Ain-i-Akbari">{{cite book |last1=Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak |author1-link=Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak |translator-last1=Jarrett |translator-first1=Henry Sullivan |title=The Ain-i-Akbari |date=1891 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bengal |location=Calcutta |url=https://archive.org/details/ainiakbarivolum00mubgoog |access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref>{{rp|130}} According to [[Irfan Habib]], the ''mahal'' of Kānkjol must have covered a "very large" area.<ref name="Habib 1982">{{cite book |last1=Habib |first1=Irfan |author1-link=Irfan Habib |title=An Atlas of the Mughal Empire |date=1982 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0195603796 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Buo9AQAAIAAJ |access-date=26 March 2023}}</ref>{{rp|42}} Its area was increased even further under the [[Nawabs of Bengal]] in the 1700s, when several ''[[pargana]]''s (including [[Rajmahal]]) were merged into its territory. As a result, the ''pargana'' of Kānkjol came to occupy a vast territory stretching downstream from [[Purnia]] along both sides of the Ganges.<ref name="Beames 1896"/>{{rp|96}}

== Demographics ==
According to the [[2011 Census of India]], Kankjol had a population of 2,501 people, in 514 households. The population was 49.9% male (1,247) and 51.1% female (1,254). There were 547 children between the ages 0–6 in the village, or 21.2% of the total population.<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Jharkhand District Census Handbook - Sahibganj, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |url=https://cdn.s3waas.gov.in/s369421f032498c97020180038fddb8e24/uploads/2018/05/2018052122.pdf |website=sahibganj.nic.in |access-date=25 December 2021}}</ref>{{rp|248}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Villages in Sahibganj district]]
[[Category:Parganas of sarkar Tanda listed in the Ain-i-Akbari]]

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