DINAJPUR, a town and district of British India, in the Rajshah division of Bengal. The population of the town in 1931 was 19,156. The district has an area of 3,946 sq.m. and a popula tion of 1,755,432. It is a flat alluvial plain broken in the south by a slightly elevated tract known as the Barind, and in the north west by low hills, along the banks of the Kulik river. The princi pal rivers are the Atrai and Jamuna and the Karatoya, which forms the eastern boundary for 5o m. Rice is the staple agri cultural product. The district is partly traversed by the main line of the Eastern Bengal State railway and by the line to Behar, which takes off at Parbatipur. Pillars and copper-plate inscrip tions have yielded numerous records of the Pala kings of Bengal. Interesting ruins exist at Devikot and Ghoraghat which were mili tary stations under the early Mohammedan rulers of Bengal.