The name Cooch Behar is a compound of two words: Cooch and Behar. Cooch is a corrupted form of Coch or Koch, the name of an ethnic group inhabiting a vast tract of land to the northeast of Bengal. Behar or, more properly, Vihara denotes abode or sport. Cooch Behar means, therefore, the abode or land of the Koches. Ray, B.. CENSUS 1961 WEST BENGALArchived 12 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine. GOVERNMENT PRINTING, WEST BENGAL, 1961, p.20
"Press Note, Delimitation Commission"(PDF). Assembly Constituencies in West Bengal. Delimitation Commission. pp. 4, 23. Archived(PDF) from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
The name Cooch Behar is a compound of two words: Cooch and Behar. Cooch is a corrupted form of Coch or Koch, the name of an ethnic group inhabiting a vast tract of land to the northeast of Bengal. Behar or, more properly, Vihara denotes abode or sport. Cooch Behar means, therefore, the abode or land of the Koches. Ray, B.. CENSUS 1961 WEST BENGALArchived 12 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine. GOVERNMENT PRINTING, WEST BENGAL, 1961, p.20
"Press Note, Delimitation Commission"(PDF). Assembly Constituencies in West Bengal. Delimitation Commission. pp. 4, 23. Archived(PDF) from the original on 8 January 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2009.