Chuadanga ( bn, চুয়াডাঙ্গা, tʃuaɖaŋga), is a district of the western

Khulna Division The Khulna Division ( bn, খুলনা বিভাগ) is the second largest of the eight divisions of Bangladesh. It has an area of and a population of 15,563,000 at the 2011 Bangladesh census (preliminary returns). Its headquarters and lar ...

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. It is bordered by the

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to the west,

Meherpur Meherpur ( bn, মেহেরপুর, pron: ''meɦeɾpuɾ'') is the northwestern district of Khulna Division in southwestern Bangladesh. It is bordered by the Indian state of West Bengal to the west, and by the Bangladeshi districts of Kushtia ...

District to the northwest,

Jessore Jessore ( bn, যশোর, jôshor, ), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District situated in Khulna Division. It is situated in the south-western part of Bangladesh. It is the administrative centre (headquarter) of the eponymous district ...

District to the south,

Jhenaidah Jhenaidah ( bn, ঝিনাইদহ) is a city in the Khulna Division of south-western Bangladesh. Jhenaidah is the headquarters of Jhenaidah Sadar Upazila and Jhenaidah District. The city has a population of about 252 thousand, making it the ...

District to the east, and

Kushtia Kushtia ( bn, কুষ্টিয়া) is a city in the Khulna Division of southwestern Bangladesh. Kushtia is the second largest municipality in Bangladesh and the eleventh largest city in the country. The second largest city in Khulna div ...

District to the north. Before partition Chuadanga was one of the five subdivisions under

Nadia district Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north. Nadia district is highly influentia ...

History

Chuadanga witnessed a number of uprisings during the British rule of India. The uprisings included

Wahabi Movement Wahhabism ( ar, ٱلْوَهَّابِيَةُ, translit=al-Wahhābiyyah) is a Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement associated with the reformist doctrines of the 18th-century Arabian Islamic scholar, theologian, preacher, a ...

(1831),

Faraizi Movement The Faraizi movement ( bn, ফরায়েজি আন্দোলন, fôrayeji andolon) was a movement led by Haji Shariatullah in Eastern Bengal to give up un-Islamic practices and act upon their duties as Muslims ( ''farāʾiḍ''). F ...

(1838–47),

Sepoy Rebellion ''Sepoy'' () was the Persian-derived designation originally given to a professional Indian infantryman, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire. In the 18th century, the French East India Company and its oth ...

(1857),

Indigo Rebellion The Indigo revolt (or ''Nil bidroha''; Bengali: নীল বিদ্রোহ) was a peasant movement and subsequent uprising of indigo farmers against the indigo planters, that arose in Bengal in 1859, and continued for over a year. The villa ...

(1859–60),

Khilafat Movement The Khilafat Movement (1919–24), also known as the Caliphate movement or the Indian Muslim movement, was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by Muslims of British India led by Shaukat Ali, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Hakim Ajma ...

(1920),

Swadeshi Movement The Swadeshi movement was a self-sufficiency movement that was part of the Indian independence movement and contributed to the development of Indian nationalism. Before the BML Government's decision for the partition of Bengal was made public in ...

(1906),

Non-cooperation movement The Non-cooperation movement was a political campaign launched on 4 September 1920, by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of persuading them to grant self-governance.

, Violation of Law and

Salt Satyagraha The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty-four day march lasted from 12 March to 6 April 1930 as a di ...

(1920–40), and

Quit India Movement The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Kranti Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8th August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in ...

or August Revolt (1942). Under

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, Chuadanga was a sub-division within

Nadia District Nadia () is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It borders Bangladesh to the east, North 24 Parganas and Hooghly districts to the south, Purba Bardhaman to the west, and Murshidabad to the north. Nadia district is highly influentia ...

. During

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, in 1947, excepting

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thana (still under Nadia in West Bengal). History of Chuadanga can be found in Nadia District Gazetteer during British rule.Nadia District Gazetteer
Chuadanga was the location of more than 100 battles between the Pakistan Army and the pro-independence

Mukti Bahini The Mukti Bahini ( bn, মুক্তিবাহিনী, translates as 'freedom fighters', or liberation army), also known as the Bangladesh Forces, was the guerrilla resistance movement consisting of the Bangladeshi military, paramilitary ...

. There is a mass graveyard of the victims of the

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during the

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behind the Chuadanga Government Hospital.

Geography

Chuadanga district has an area of 1,157.42 km². It shares domestic borders with the

Kushtia District Kushtia District ( bn, কুষ্টিয়া জেলা, pronunciation: ''kuʃʈia'') is a district in the Khulna administrative division of western Bangladesh. Kushtia is the second largest municipality in Bangladesh and the eleventh l ...

on the northeast,

on the northwest, and Jhenaidah on the south and southeast. On its southwest lies the

(in the state of

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). In January 2018, the district had the lowest temperature in Bangladesh.

Administration

Until the

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in 1947 Chuadanga sub-division was within Nadia district. Deputy Commissioner (DC): Mohammad Aminul Islam Khan

Subdivisions

Chuadanga district is divided into four ''Upazilas which run cities of the same name.'' *

Chuadanga Sadar Upazila Chuadanga Sadar ( bn, চুয়াডাঙ্গা সদর) is an upazila of Chuadanga District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. Chuadanga was the first capital of Bangladesh. Geography Chuadanga Sadar is located at . It has 41135 hou ...

Alamdanga Upazila Alamdanga ( bn, আলমডাঙ্গা) is an upazila of Chuadanga District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. It covers an area of . Geography Alamdanga is located at . It has 44,699 households and total area 360.4 km2. Demographic ...

Jibannagar Upazila Jibannagar ( bn, জীবননগর) is an upazila of Chuadanga District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. Geography Jibannagar is located at . It has 22628 households and total area 199.32 km2. Jibannagar Upazila has an area of 199.3 ...

Damurhuda Upazila Damurhuda ( bn, দামুড়হুদা) is an upazila of Chuadanga District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. Geography Damurhuda is located at . It has 37,279 households and a total area of 308.11 km2. Dumurhuda Upazila is bou ...

Demographics

According to the

2011 Bangladesh census In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were reco ...

, Chuadanga District had a population of 1,129,015, of which 564,819 were males and 564,196 females. Rural population was 822858 (72.88%) and urban population was 306157 (27.12%). Chuadanga had a literacy rate of 45.91% for the population 7 years and above: 46.88% for males and 44.93% for females. Muslims formed 97.46% of the population, Hindus 2.35%, and others 0.19%. The

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of the district was 987,382 during the 2001 national

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with 50.82% male and female 49.18% compositions.

Economy

Most of this small district is dedicated to

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

. Occupational distributions clearly show this with agriculture employing 68% of the labour force, while only 12% are involved in

commerce Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...

. Total cultivable land amounts to 894.20 km², of which 57% is under some sort of irrigation. Cotton is a cash crop grown in the district and in 2013, cotton was cultivated in 4149 hectares. Besides agriculture the district is now experiencing industrial growth. Major industries include Zaman Group of Industries, Bangas bread and biscuit, Tallu Spinning mills Ltd, Khatun Plastic Limited, and Carew & Company Bangladesh Limited.

Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd. is the only licensed distillery producing alcohol made from sugar molasses in Bangladesh and is located at Darshana, Chuadanga, Khulna Division, Bangladesh. It is the only distillery in Bangladesh owned by the Govern ...

(1933), which is situated at

Darshana In Indian religions, ''Darshana'', also spelt ''Darshan'', (Sanskrit: दर्शन, , ) or ''Darshanam'' (darśanam) is the auspicious sight of a deity or a holy person. The term also refers to six traditional schools of Hindu philosophy ...

of Chuadanga district. Sugar cane is cultivated in Darshana. Carew & Company has a distillery also which is the lone spirit producing plant of Bangladesh, Carew & Company Bangladesh Limited is an enterprise of Bangladesh Sugar & Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC). BSFIC is an autonomous body of Ministry of Industries.

Transportation

Chuadanga is connected to four of its neighbouring districts (Kushtia, Jessore, Jhenidah and Meherpur) through inter-district highways and connected to Jessore, Jhenaidah and Kushtia by railway. The district is connected to the rest of the country by five highways and a railway. There are 203 km of finished road, 211 km herring-bone and 132 km mud road. A total length of railway tracks of just over 50 km connects the three railway stations inside the district with the country's railway network. By 2013, five out of the ten stations in the district were shut down due to a lack of manpower.

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References

External links

* {{Authority control Districts of Bangladesh Khulna Division