Baliati Zamindar Bari ( bn, বালিয়াটি জমিদার বাড়ি) is in the village of Baliati, in

Saturia Upazila Saturia ( bn, সাটুরিয়া) is an upazila of Manikganj District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The administrative center is located in Saturia. Geography Saturia is located at . It has 27174 households and total area 140.12& ...

Manikganj District Manikganj ( bn, মানিকগঞ্জ ) is a district in central Bangladesh. It is a part of the Dhaka Division, In 1845 AD it was at first declared as a sub-division. It was at first, under Faridpur district (Faridpur Zila) then it was i ...

, Bangladesh. It is the palace of the

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 ...

s, the Baliati Zamindari who ruled over a large area. The Baliati Jamindar Bari is located at .

History

Gobinda Ram Shaha ( bn, গোবিন্দ রাম সাহা) was the settler of the

Zamindari 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 ...

at Baliati. He was a salt merchant. He inherited the business from his parent, then he extended that business further and established the zamindari. The zamindari extended to

Narayanganj District Narayanganj District ( bn, নারায়ণগঞ্জ, Narayoṇgonj) is a district in central Bangladesh which is a part of the Dhaka Division. It is home to the ancient city of Sonargaon and is one of the oldest industrial districts in the ...

Architecture

There are seven palaces. The palace area occupies around of land, enclosed within a moat and a perimeter wall. There are about 200 rooms inside the premises. At the back of the Palace is a pond (''dighi'').

Abolition

At the end of the 18th century, Zamindar Harendra Kumar Roy Chowdhury officially sold some parts of the Zamindari of Narayanganj to Sreemoti Alladi BiBi who was the owner of Talluk and her husband Zamindar Rahim Bakhsh Haji. The palaces have been administered by the Bangladesh archeological department since 1987. And it is said that after separation in 1947, all the ancestors left for India.

References

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The Grandeur of Baliati
The Daily Star, Published 1 April 2016 Retrieved 28 May 2017.
Baliati Zamidar Bari
The Asian Age, Published 19 November 2016 Retrieved 20 November 2018. {{coord, 23.9952, N, 90.0419, E, display=title Zamindari estates Bengali zamindars

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Architecture

Abolition

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