Historical and Interesting spots of Thakurgaon, Bangladesh.

Thakurgaon

Thakurgaon is in the north west corner of Bangladesh, it is about 467 km from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It is surrounded by Dinajpur district on its south, Panchagarh district to the east and India on its west and north sides, it is a part of the Himalayan plain land.

 

 

History:

In the year 1800 During British rule A Thakur family established a thana beside the present municipality area.  The name Thakurgaon came from the respective family name. Thakurgaon was a district subdivision. In 1947 at the time of the Partition of India, Thakurgaon Subdivision became part of East Pakistan and became part of the newly established Dinajpur District of East Bengal. In 21st February, 1984 Takurgaon subdivision was split off Dinajpur and became a separate district- Thakurgaon with 5 Thana.

Interesting and Tourist Spots of Thakurgaon:  

 There are lot of historical and interesting tourist spots in Thakurgaon district. The most interesting places are the Jogdal Birendra Nath Choudhury's palace, Khuni dighi memorial monument, landlord Tankanath's house, Haripur Jamidar Bari, Ranisagar, Gorakhanath temple, Rajvita, Jogdal Rajbari, Mahalbari mosque, Jamalpur Jamidarbari mosque, Sangah Sahi mosque,  Harinmari Shib Mandir, Dholorhat temple,  Malduar fort, Gorgram fort, Bangla Gor, Gor Bhobanipur etc. 

Khunia Dighi memorial monument:

It is the largest men grave of Thakurgaon. During the liberation war of Bangladesh Pakistani army killed about 1000 people in this place. The area of the dighi is about 6 acrs.

  Haripur King's Palace:

Haripur Jamidar bari is the center of the Haripur upzilla. It was established by the generation. During the rule of muslim (i.e. 1400) a man named Ghansham Kunda came to Haripur to set up a business of Andy cloth. At that time a woman named Meherunnesa was the landlord of this area. She was from Medinisagar village. She had to paid to her taxes to the lord of Tajpur. Meherunnesa sold some part of her property to Ghansham Kunda due to her unpaid taxes.   

Raghbendra one of the descendants of Ghansham Kunda started to build up the Haripur king’s palace during the British period in 19^th century. Jogendra Narayan, son of Raghbendra finished the construction of the king’s palace at the end of 19^th century. The palace is a two stored building. The wall of the first floor was designed by different arabesque. The eastern wall contains 14 statue of Jogendra Narayan. There is a Shib temple at the eastern side of the building and a Nath temple in front of the temple. There was a big library in the king’s palace. 

Tonkonath Jamidar Bari: 

Tonkanath Jamidar Bari is located at Malduar beside the river Kulik which is the east of Ranishonkoil upzilla. The name of Tonkanath’s father is Buddinath Chowdhury. He was a Moithily Brahman and was the incharge of Shamrai temple inherited by Guala Jamidar. Guala Jamidar had no child. Whenever he left for Kashi he made a deed mentioning that if he never come back Buddinath will be the next Jamidar. Later Guala Jamidar didn’t came back and Buddinath became the next Jamidar.

Though Buddinath Chowdhury started building the Jamidar palace but Tankanath finished it. It was built at the end of the 19^th Century. Most of the part of the palace has already been cracked. The main door of the palace is at western end. There is a rest house in the north-east side of the palace and two pond in the east. There was Ramchandra mandir beside the river Kulik which was about 200 meter away the palace. The temple was too older than the palace. In 1971 during the liberation war of Bangladesh the Pakistani army made a huge lose of it.

Jamalpur Jamidarbari Mosque:

On the way of Pirgonj from Thakurgaon there is Shibgonjhat. Jamalpur Jamidarbari Mosque is 3 km away from Shibgonjhat. There is a big and beautiful portal in front of the mosque. The descendant of Rowshan Ali built this mosque in 1867. They expensed a lot of money beside this mosque.

The artifacts of the mosque is mind-blowing and praiseworthy.  There are three domes of the mosque. Top of the domes were designed by glass and stones. The most effective characteristics of the mosque is its minar. There are 28 minars on the roof of the mosque. The height of the every minar is 35 feet. The area of the mosque is 29×47 feet. It has 2 windows, 3 doors and 2 niches. The wall of the mosque were designed by spinach and flowers. It is the most beautiful tourist spots of this district.

Malduar Fort:

An ancient fort discovered one kilometer south of Ranishonkoil upzilla. It’s length is 2.4 kilometer and width is 1 kilometer. It’s wall was made of mud and there is sign of water gauge outside of the wall. Lots of ancient bricks, cracks of ceramics and statue of stones ware found from the northern side of the fort.