Dakkhindihi is a village under Fultala
Union Parishad of
Phultala Upazila of
Khulna district of
Bangladesh. The village is about 19 km from
Khulna
Khulna ( bn, খুলনা, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of Khulna District and Khulna Division. Khulna's economy is the third-largest in Bangladesh, contributing $53 b ...
city.
Tagore family had a close connection with Dakkhindihi village. It was Rabindranath Tagore's maternal ancestral village. Besides poets mother Sarada Sundari Devi; poets Grandmother Digambari Devi, poets wife
Mrinalini Devi and paternal aunt by marriage Tripura Sundari Devi were from this village. In
British India; Fultala Union Parishad was a single village named Fultala village and was under Khulna district of then
Jessore Mohakuma. Young Tagore used to visit Dakkhindihi village with his mother to visit his maternal uncles; in his mothers ancestral home. The residence of
Tagore's father-in-law, Beni Madhab Roy Chowdhury in this village now conserved as a museum named Dakkhindihi
Rabindra complex. Tagore visited this Village several times in his lifetime.
References
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Villages in Khulna District