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Ulania Zamindar Bari Masjid, Barisal (7)
Ulania ( bn, উলানিয়া) is a Union of Mehendiganj Upazila in the District and Division of Barisal, Bangladesh. In Ulania town there are the ancient ruins of the palaces, mosques of a local Lord (called ''Jamidar'' in Bengali). 'The Dark House' (called ''Ondho Kutir'' in Bengali) which is believed to be the house where Jamidars' brought rebels who were against them and let them starve until their death. Strong figures such as Asad Chowdhury (a prominent poet), Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (writer of Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano), Wahed Reza Chowdhury (one of the leader of Khilafat Movement) and many more creative faces were born in this locality. Geography Ulania is located at . It has total area 22.50 km². The town is located beside the Sultani River linked from the Meghna river in the north to the Tentulia River in the south. It is bordered by in the north east, Bhola Sadar in the south east, Chandpur and Char Ekkaria union in the west, also briefly touch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Councils Of Bangladesh
Union council ( bn, ইউনিয়ন পরিষদ, translit=iūniyan pariṣad, translit-std=IAST), also known as union parishad, rural council, rural union and simply union, is the smallest rural administrative and local government unit in Bangladesh. Each union council is made up of nine wards. Usually one village is designated as a ward. There are 4,562 unions in Bangladesh. A union council consists of a chairman and twelve members including three members exclusively reserved for women. Union councils are formed under the ''Local Government (Union Parishads) Act, 2009''. The boundary of each union council is demarcated by the Deputy Commissioner of the District. A union council is the body primarily responsible for agricultural, industrial and community development within the local limits of the union. History The term ''union'' dates back to the 1870 British legislation titled the ''Village Chowkidari Act'' which established union ''panchayats'' for collecting tax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sultani River
The sultani () was an Ottoman gold coin. It was first minted in 1477–8 during the reign of Mehmed II (r. 1451–1481), following the Venetian ducat The ducat () coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages from the 13th to 19th centuries. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained ... standard, weighing about . The sultani is the classic Ottoman gold coin also known generically as altın (, " gold"). References Gold coins Coins of the Ottoman Empire {{Ottoman-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulled Rickshaw
A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese language, Japanese ) is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people. In recent times the use of human-powered rickshaws has been discouraged or outlawed in many countries due to concern for the welfare of rickshaw workers. Pulled rickshaws have been replaced mainly by cycle rickshaw and auto rickshaws. Overview Rickshaws are commonly believed to have been invented in Japan in the 1860s, at the beginning of a rapid period of technical advancement. In the 19th century, rickshaw pulling became an inexpensive, popular mode of transportation across Asia. Peasants who migrated to large Asian cities often worked first as a rickshaw runner. It was "the deadliest occupation in the East, [and] the most degrading for human beings to pursue." The rickshaw's popularity in Japan declined by the 1930s with the advent of automated forms of transportation, like automobiles and trains. In China, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulania Zamindar Bari Masjid, Barisal (7)
Ulania ( bn, উলানিয়া) is a Union of Mehendiganj Upazila in the District and Division of Barisal, Bangladesh. In Ulania town there are the ancient ruins of the palaces, mosques of a local Lord (called ''Jamidar'' in Bengali). 'The Dark House' (called ''Ondho Kutir'' in Bengali) which is believed to be the house where Jamidars' brought rebels who were against them and let them starve until their death. Strong figures such as Asad Chowdhury (a prominent poet), Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (writer of Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano), Wahed Reza Chowdhury (one of the leader of Khilafat Movement) and many more creative faces were born in this locality. Geography Ulania is located at . It has total area 22.50 km². The town is located beside the Sultani River linked from the Meghna river in the north to the Tentulia River in the south. It is bordered by in the north east, Bhola Sadar in the south east, Chandpur and Char Ekkaria union in the west, also briefly touch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulania Zamindar Bari Masjid, Barisal (3)
Ulania ( bn, উলানিয়া) is a Union Councils of Bangladesh, Union of Mehendiganj Upazila in the District and Division of Barisal Division, Barisal, Bangladesh. In Ulania town there are the ancient ruins of the palaces, mosques of a local Lord (called ''Jamidar'' in Bengali language, Bengali). 'The Dark House' (called ''Ondho Kutir'' in Bengali) which is believed to be the house where Jamidars' brought rebels who were against them and let them starve until their death. Strong figures such as Asad Chowdhury (a prominent poet), Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (writer of Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano), Wahed Reza Chowdhury (one of the leader of Khilafat Movement) and many more creative faces were born in this locality. Geography Ulania is located at . It has total area 22.50 km². The town is located beside the Sultani River linked from the Meghna river in the north to the Tentulia River in the south. It is bordered by in the north east, Bhola Sadar in the south east, Chandpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulania Zamindar Bari Masjid, Barisal (1)
Ulania ( bn, উলানিয়া) is a Union of Mehendiganj Upazila in the District and Division of Barisal, Bangladesh. In Ulania town there are the ancient ruins of the palaces, mosques of a local Lord (called ''Jamidar'' in Bengali). 'The Dark House' (called ''Ondho Kutir'' in Bengali) which is believed to be the house where Jamidars' brought rebels who were against them and let them starve until their death. Strong figures such as Asad Chowdhury (a prominent poet), Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (writer of Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano), Wahed Reza Chowdhury (one of the leader of Khilafat Movement) and many more creative faces were born in this locality. Geography Ulania is located at . It has total area 22.50 km². The town is located beside the Sultani River linked from the Meghna river in the north to the Tentulia River in the south. It is bordered by in the north east, Bhola Sadar in the south east, Chandpur and Char Ekkaria union in the west, also briefly touch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulania Zamindar Bari Relics (1)
Ulania ( bn, উলানিয়া) is a Union of Mehendiganj Upazila in the District and Division of Barisal, Bangladesh. In Ulania town there are the ancient ruins of the palaces, mosques of a local Lord (called ''Jamidar'' in Bengali). 'The Dark House' (called ''Ondho Kutir'' in Bengali) which is believed to be the house where Jamidars' brought rebels who were against them and let them starve until their death. Strong figures such as Asad Chowdhury (a prominent poet), Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (writer of Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano), Wahed Reza Chowdhury (one of the leader of Khilafat Movement) and many more creative faces were born in this locality. Geography Ulania is located at . It has total area 22.50 km². The town is located beside the Sultani River linked from the Meghna river in the north to the Tentulia River in the south. It is bordered by in the north east, Bhola Sadar in the south east, Chandpur and Char Ekkaria union in the west, also briefly touch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Bangladesh Census
In 2001, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted a national census in Bangladesh, ten years after the 1991 census. They recorded data from all of the districts, upazilas, and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active population, literacy and educational attainment, religion, number of children, etc. According to the adjusted 2001 census figures, Bangladesh's population stood at 129.3 million (an initial count put it at 124.4 million; an adjustment for the standard rate of undercounting then boosted the figure). According to the census, Hindus were 9.2 per cent of the population, down from 10.5 per cent as of 1991. The census data were collected from January 23 to 27, 2001. The 2001 census was the first in Bangladesh to use optical mark recognition (OMR) technology. Bangladesh have a population of 124,355,263 as per 2001 census report. Majority of 111,397,444 reported th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamindar
A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a native synonym for “estate”. The term means ''land owner'' in Persian. Typically hereditary, from whom they reserved the right to collect tax on behalf of imperial courts or for military purposes. During the period of British colonial rule in India many wealthy and influential zamindars were bestowed with princely and royal titles such as ''maharaja'' (great king), ''raja/rai'' (king) and ''nawab''. During the Mughal Empire, zamindars belonged to the nobility and formed the ruling class. Emperor Akbar granted them mansabs and their ancestral domains were treated as jagirs. Some zamindars who were Hindu by religion and brahmin or kayastha or kshatriya by caste were converted into Muslims by the Mughals. During the colonial era, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Char Ekkaria
Char may refer to: People * Char Fontane, American actress * Char Margolis, American spiritualist *René Char (1907–1988), French poet *The Char family of Colombia: **Fuad Char, Colombian senator **Alejandro Char Chaljub, mayor of Barranquilla **Arturo Char Chaljub, Colombian senator **David Char Navas, Colombian senator **Sofia Daccarett Char, better known as Sofia Carson, American actress and singer *Char (musician), stage name of Japanese musician Hisato Takenaka (born 1955) Other uses *River Char, a river in Dorset, England * Char (chemistry), the solid material that forms during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material * Char (fish), a common name for fishes in the genus ''Salvelinus'', including Arctic char * Char Aznable, a fictional character from the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' series *A char in ANSI/ISO C is a value holding one byte (which was the size of a character in legacy encodings such as ASCII) *A common slang term for tea throughout the British E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandpur District
Chandpur District () is a district located in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. It was a part of the Cumilla District until 15 February 1984.Musa, Muhammad. Brahmanbariar Itibrittyo, Shetu Prokashoni, Brahmanbaria,1998. History During the ruling of the Baro-Bhuiyans, this region was occupied by Chand Ray, the Zamindar of Bikrampur and son of Kedar Ray. According to historian J. M. Sengupta, the region was named Chandpur, following the name of Chand Ray. On the other hand, others say that the name of this region comes from Chand Faqir of Purindapur mahalla of Chandpur, Bangladesh. It is said that an administrator named Shah Ahmed Chand came here from Delhi in the fifteenth century and established a river port. In 1779 AD, Major James Rennel, a British surveyor, drew a map of Bengal during the British rule and included an obscure town called Chandpur. At that time, there were offices and courts at a place called Narsinghpur (which has now sunk) south of Chandpur. The confluen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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