JALPAIGURI, or JULPIGOREE  , a town and district of British India, in the Rajshahi division of Eastern Bengal and Assam . The town is on the right bank of the river Tista, with a station on the Eastern Bengal railway about 300 M. due N. of Calcutta . Pop . (1901), 9708 . It is the headquarters of the commissioner of the division . The DISTRICT OF JALPAIGURI (organized in 1869) occupies an irregularly shaped tract south of Darjeeling and Bhutan and north of the state of Kuch Behar . It includes the Western Dwars, annexed from Bhutan after the war of 1864-1865 . Area, 2,962 sq. m . Pop . (1901), 787,380, an increase of 16% in the decade . The district is divided into a " regulation " tract, lying towards the south-west, and a strip of country, about 22 M. in width, running along the foot of the Himalayas,, and known as the Western Dwars . The former is a continuous expanse of level paddy fields, only broken by groves of bamboos, palms, and fruit-trees .

The frontier towards Bhutan is formed by the Sinchula

mountain range, some peaks of which attain an elevation of 6000 ft . It is thickly wooded from base to summit . The principal rivers, proceeding from west to east, are the Mahananda, Karatoya, Tista, Jaldhaka, Duduya, Mujnai, Tursa, Kaljani, Raidak, and Sankos . The most important is the Tista, which forms a valuable means of water communication . Lime is quarried in the lower Bhutan hills . The Western Dwars are the principal centre of tea cultivation in Eastern Bengal . The other portion of the district produces jute . Jalpaiguri is traversed by the main line of the Eastern Bengal railway to Darjeeling . It is also served by the Bengal Dwars railway .