Kankjol is a village in Barharwa block of Sahibganj district, Jharkhand. An old town dating back at least to the 1100s, Kankjol was a provincial capital under the Sena dynasty and later was the seat of a pargana under the Mughal Empire. As of 2011, it has a population of 2,501 people, in 514 households.
Hiranand Sastri, Kashinath Narayan Dikshit, and N. P. Chakravarti identified Kankjol with Kaá¹ kagrÃÂma, eponymous capital of the Kaá¹ kagrÃÂmabhukti division of the Sena dynasty. This bhukti (province) is first attested 1183 in the Shaktipur grant of Lakshmanasena. The grant states that Uttara RÃÂá¸ÂhÃÂ, (what is now the northern Rarh region), was part of Kaá¹ kagrÃÂmabhukti According to Dhirendra Chandra Ganguly, the province seems to have been a recent creation at that point, likely reflecting recent conquests under Lakshmanasena. Uttara RÃÂá¸Âhà(what is now the northern Rarh region), mentioned as part of the VardhamÃÂna bhukti just a few years prior, is mentioned in the Shaktipur grant as part of Kaá¹ kagrÃÂmabhukti; it seems to have formed the southern part of the new province, with the Ajay River marking the boundary between the Kaá¹ kagrÃÂma and VardhamÃÂna provinces. Kaá¹ kagrÃÂmabhukti also seems to have encompassed the present-day Santhal Pargana division and Bhagalpur district in the northwest.
John Beames identified KÃÂnjkol with the "Kánakjok" of the Ain-i Akbari, which is listed as a mahal in sarkar Tanda. This mahal was listed with an assessed revenue of 1,589,332 dams. According to Irfan Habib, the mahal of KÃÂnkjol must have covered a "very large" area. Its area was increased even further under the Nawabs of Bengal in the 1700s, when several parganas (including Rajmahal) were merged into its territory. As a result, the pargana of KÃÂnkjol came to occupy a vast territory stretching downstream from Purnia along both sides of the Ganges.
According to the 2011 Census of India, Kankjol had a population of 2,501 people, in 514 households. The population was 49.9% male (1,247) and 51.1% female (1,254). There were 547 children between the ages 0âÂÂ6 in the village, or 21.2% of the total population.