Dihi Baliharpur is a village in the Daspur I CD block in the Ghatal subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Dihi Baliharpur is located at .
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scholar, social reformer and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance, was born at Birsingha on 26 September 1820.
Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, has alluvial soils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once. It has a density of population of 1,099 per km<sup>2</sup>, but being a small subdivision only a little over a fifth of the people in the district reside in this subdivision. 14.33% of the population lives in urban areas and 86.67% lives in the rural areas.
<small>Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.</small>
According to the 2011 Census of India, Dihi Baliharpur had a total population of 867, of which 456 (53%) were males and 411 (47%) were females. There were 93 persons in the age range of 0âÂÂ6 years. The total number of literate persons in Dihi Baliharpur was 698 (90.18% of the population over 6 years).
David J. McCutchion mentions the Dihi Baliharpur temple as richly decorated pancha-ratna with smooth rekha turrets and porch on three arches.
He also mentions two other temples: