Topic summary
Dhaka Nawab Family
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Nawab of Dhaka.
History
The Dhaka Nawab family was officially established by Khwaja Hafizullah Kashmiri son of Khawaja Abdullah Kashmiri, who acquired considerable wealth via trade in leather and gold. His fortune was built upon trading leather, spices, and salt with Greek and Armenian merchants. He also purchased some floundering zamindari estates, on sale everywhere in Bengal under Permanent Settlement, and indigo factories in Barisal District and Mymensingh District. In the following years, they married into renowned families in the locality to strengthen their hold over the newly acquired territories, most notably the zamindari families of Karatia and Kartikpur, whose estates had been established through Mughal imperial firmans and whose local influence made them key partners in the governance of eastern Bengal.