History of Brahmanbaria District

Brahmanbaria is a region of the east-central region in Bangladesh. It is also under Chittagong Division. It is one of the oldest municipalities that was established in 1769.

Mar 23, 2021
 



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Brahmanbaria is a region of the east-central region in Bangladesh. It is also under Chittagong Division. It is one of the oldest municipalities that was established in 1769. It was also declared as headquarter in 1984. Its area is about 1927.11 square kilometers and its population has approximately 2840498. It is bounded by Habiganj district and the Tripura State of India at east, Kishoreganj and Habiganj at the north, Comilla District at south and Meghna river, Kishoreganj, Narsinghdi, and Nrayanganj districts at west.

History

In ancient Bengal there was a place named Samata and Brahmanbaria was a part of it. The historic name of Brahmanbaria was Rong. When the Sena period was running on King Balla Sen invited a Brahmin family to come and stay in Rong because there was a shortage of Hindu priests. Again, in the 14th century, a Qadi named Syed Mahmud came to extend Islam religion to its inhabitants. The Brahmins decided to accept Islam willingly and left their positions as priests and also moved on to Nabinagar to start a new life. The area where Mohammad resided was named after him as Kazipara and his mausoleum is also found there. After that incident, Rong was named Brahmanbaria as the local dialect of the Brahmins that they left. Again, during the Mughal era, Isa Khan who was the leader of Baro-Bhuiyan made his first and temporary capital in Serail. Also at that time, Brahmanbaria was famous for producing quality clothes Muslin. When British Colonialists ruled over the subcontinent, there were three subdivisions of Comilla District, and Brahmanbaria was one of them. It was made into a subdivision in 1790 and once again, the municipality was formed in 1868. 


There were many nationalists leaders found during the 19th century like barrister Abdul Huda who was the first ranking leader of the Indian National Congress, Nayab Sayed Samsul Hud who became president of All India Muslim League in 1921. Besides, the revolutionary character Ullaskar Datta of Brahmanbaria was convicted for throwing bomb explosions and was deported to Andaman when Swadeshi Movement was formed in the wake of 1905 Bangla. Moreover, on Bengali Language Movement in 1952, for a courageous Brahmanbaria-born leader named Oli Ahad, the movement obtained its momentum. During the Bangla Liberation was in 1971, Mohammad Mostofa Kamal faced death against the Pakistani army at Derain in Akhaura. To add, Shakil Ahmed who was a military general was murdered in the country's Rifles Revolt in 2009. Lastly, During the no-rent movement, four civilians got killed as the British soldiers fired on them indiscriminately.

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Writer: Sonjoy Kumer


 References: bn.m.wikipedia.org, thehistoryofbangladesh.blogspot.com


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