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Cooch Behar West Assembly constituency

vidhan Sabha constituency

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ132861386 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cooch Behar West was an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Editorial summary

“Cooch Behar West Assembly constituency” enters the record as vidhan Sabha constituency. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cooch, Behar and West can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 18-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cooch, Behar and West.
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“Cooch Behar West Assembly constituency” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cooch, Behar and West provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q132861386. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cooch Behar West Assembly constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.