About Brindaban Village

Brindaban is a mid sized village in Taljhari tehsil, in the district of Sahibganj, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,772, made up of 898 males and 874 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 973 females per 1000 males. The village covers 306 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 816116, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Brindaban compares

By the 2011 count Brindaban is among the largest villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 383 residents. Its 306 hectares work out to about 5.8 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is a little below the tehsil average of 992.

Getting to Brindaban

Brindaban is a little way from the nearest bus route, and further still from the railway. The census records public bus service for Brindaban as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Brindaban from other places

Brindaban lies about 27 km from Sahibganj, and the nearest railway station is Kalian Chak, about 3.8 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Brindaban

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Taljhari tehsil.

• Jaskuti under 2 km
• Hisiganj under 2 km
• Behera 1.6 km
• Ambadih 1.7 km
• Ambadiha 1.7 km
• Rampur 1.7 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.