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Nanoor (also spelt Nanur, called Chandidas Nanoor), is a town with a police station in Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Nanoor is the birthplace of 14th century lyric poet Chandidas of ''Vaishnava Padavali'' fame. It is developing as a craft centre with NGO support. With the massacres in 2000, Nanoor was in intense media focus. ==Geography== Nanoor is located at . It has an average elevation of . Nanoor is located in the south-eastern corner of the district which is an alluvial plain between Ajay and Mayurakshi Rivers. It has hot and dry summers, spread over March – May, followed by the monsoon from June to September. 78 per cent of the rainfall occurs during this period.〔Choudhuri, Tapan, ''Unnayaner Alokey Birbhum'', ''Paschim Banga '', Birbhum Special Issue, February 2006, , pp. 60-61, Information & Cultural Department, Government of West Bengal.〕 As per historical records there have been at least 13 intensive droughts between the years 1799 and 1855. The drought of 1836-37 was particularly severe.〔Gupta, Dr. Ranjan Kumar, ''The Economic Life of a Bengal District: Birbhum 1770 – 1857'', p. 114, The University of Burdwan, 1984.〕 Floods also wreak havoc. Some 7,000 mud houses either collapsed or remained in bad shape in Nanoor and three other blocks, affecting around 15,000 villagers in 2004. It is 47 km from Suri, 18 km from Bolpur/Santiniketan and 29 km from Ahmedpur.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nanoor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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