Dihar
Dihar is a village and an ancient archaeological site of great antiquarian importance brought into the limelight by Maniklal Sinha.
Dihar is a village and an ancient archaeological site of great antiquarian importance brought into the limelight by Maniklal Sinha. Located in the Bishnupur subdivision of the Bankura district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Bishnupur and is near Dharapat.
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Worth seeing in and around Dihar
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Dihar archaeological site
Dihar is an archaeological site of Neolithic and Early village farming culture located in the Indian state of West Bengal. Construction of the settlement is believed to have started around 2700 BC. Dihar people developed a system of exploitation of natural resources and subsequent commercialization of commodities.
1.4 km · Archaeological site in West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Dihar
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 124 km
- Kolkata → Dihar712 km · quickest by road, 13h 35m · ₹5,650–7,100
- Bhubaneswar → Dihar636 km · quickest by road, 15h 16m · ₹6,250–7,800
- Siliguri → Dihar715 km · quickest by road, 13h 5m · ₹5,450–6,800
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Dihar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dihar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA combination of walk and cycle rickshaw can work out very well.
From Wikivoyage: Bishnupur (West Bengal), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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If you know how people move in Dihar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Dihar
Dihar is 44 km from Durgapur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gumutvillage in Bankura district3 km