History of Rangpur Tajhat

The palace was built by Majaraja Kumar Gopal Lal Roy in the beginning of the 20th century. He was a descendent of a Hindu khatari who emigrated from the Panjab. He was a jeweler by profession. It is believed that from the conspicuous appearance of his Taj or Tajhat. From 1984 to 1991 the palace was used as a Rangpur High Court Branch of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. In 1995 the palace was declared as a protected monument by the Department of...

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History of Dinajpur (Part-6) Raja Radhanath (1778 A. D.- 1800 A. D.) Raja Singh, the Rani Saraswati.

Raja Baidyanath died in 1780 whitout an heir. His widow Rani Saraswati adopted a young boy named Radhanath. Radhanath obtained a sanad from the british declaring him successor to Baidayanath, on payment of a succession fee of 730 mohars. Warren Hastings signed the sanad where lands of the estate were given. Since Raja Radhanath was minor, the management of the estate was looked after first by Raja Devi Singh of Dilwarput, Murshidabad and later by...

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History of Dinajpur (Part-5) Raja Baidyanath (1763 A. D.-1778 A. D.)

Raja Baidyanath was third among Ramnath's four sons namely: Kishnanath, Roopnath, Baidyanath and Kantanath. A manuscript signed by Muhammad Jafir Khan, Subadar of Bengal, in which Baidyanath declred the rightful heir of his father. The character of Baidyanath was modest, gentle and weak-minder. He had given a lot of privilege to the Brahmins and due to that they became more powerful during his reign. ...

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History of Dinajpur (Part-4) Moharaja Ramnath (1722 A. D. -1763 A. D.)

Having no son no daughter, Prannath adopted a young relative named Ramanath, who took over the responsibility of the estate after him and paid a succession fee of 4.21.450 take to the Subadar of Bengal. Ramnath was very powerful and honest. F. W. Strong (Dinajpur Gazetteer 1912.P.24) stated that he seems further to have been a persona grate with the Subahdar of Bengal who granted him three sanads, conferring on  him additional estates in thanas...

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History of Dinajpur (Part-3) Maharaja Prannath(1682 A. D.- 1722 A. D)

Raja Sukhdev had two wives. Ramdev and Joydev were bron by his fast wife and the second wife delivered Prannath. Raja Sukhdav's eldest son Ramdev dide very young, the second Joydev reigned for five years froms 1677 A. D. and was succeeded by the youngest Prannath. During the reign of Mughal Emperor Alamgir, Azim-ud-din Mahamud had granted a Sanad, dated 1679, in which the succession of someone to Sukhdav's  property is recorded. Unfortunately...

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History of Dinajpur Rajbari(part-2) Raja Sukhdhev Roy (1642 A.D-1677 A.D)

District Magistrate E. V Wesmacott (1872) has given as account of Sukhdev's estate, which suggests that during his period, he inchuded and extended his estate upto present Dinajpur and Thakurgoan district as, a considerable area consisting of greater West Dinajpur, Rangpur, Bogura and Maldesh district. In addition to that, at the time of Sukhdev or of his father, the zaminder family of khetal came to an end and the property was divided up.Seven...

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History of Dinajpur Rajbari (part- 1)

The great zaminder family of  Dinajpur, who ruled the district for two centuries. could be traced back to the reign of Akbar. in 1600 AD, for administrative  reason , Akbar divided this empire into 15 subas and appointed his son prince as Subadar of Bengal. The suba was further subdivided into 19 sarkars and parts of four of those sarkars namely sarkar Ghoraghat , sarkar Tejpur sarkar Panjara, and sarkar Barbakabad fell within the limits...

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Barapukuria Coal Mine,Dinajpur

One of the spectacular modern infrastructure has been built in Dinajpur.is the coal mine base Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd along with the Thermal plant, locate at chowhati under Prabatipur Police station, also very near to Phulbari proper.Unearthed on 1985 by the Geological servey of Bangladesh, the coal is deposited to be 300 million metric ton for extraction from under 118-500 meter depth. This coal is largely fueling the adjacent 250 megawatt...

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Ramsagor Tank,Dinajpur

There are several large man made tanks available in Dinajpur region.The largest one is Mahipal Dighi,which is at khusumandi police station under north Dinajpur dristric, india.Pransagar is Gangarampur is also very large, made by Maharaja prannath of Dinajpur.Ramsagar tank is not far from pransagar or Mahipal dighi, located 8 km south of Dinajpur town towards in india border, which we also call "Ramsagar National park". This lake is very popular...

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