Panchagarh District's History
Panchagarh District which is in the Rangpur division has an area of 1404.63 square kilometers. Location: 26 ´ 008 to 26 ° 36 north distance and 8 ° 196 to 8 ´ 498 east longitude.
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Panchagarh District which is in the Rangpur division has an area of 1404.63 square kilometers. Location: 26 ´ 008 to 26 ° 36 north distance and 8 ° 196 to 8 ´ 498 east longitude. It is edged on the north by the Indian district of West Bengal, on the south by Dinajpur and Thakurgaon areas, on the east by Nilphamari region, and the west by the Indian state of West Bengal. Enclave 11.
The Indian enclaves in this district are Puthimari, Daikhat, Shalbari, Kajaldighi, Natak Toka, Nazirganj of Boda Upazila. Beheading of Debiganj Upazila, Bala para Kotbhajani, Dala Khagrabari; Garati and Singimari of Sadar Upazila. It is the northernmost neighborhood of Bangladesh.
You can go there in so many ways. Bicycles, rickshaws, and motorcycles are the major aspects of vehicles for the particular population. Normal buses relate the area to their neighboring areas and subdivisions. The road duration from Dhaka to Panchagarh is 475 kilometers. Highway transportation between Dhaka and Panchagarh is a personal district affair, operating especially in trained paths.
On the 10th of November 2018, a straightforward train benefit from Dhaka to Panchagarh was inducted. The railroad duration from Dhaka to Panchagarh is 639 kilometers, which is the lengthiest length toured by any train in the country. There is no immediate air relation from Dhaka to Panchagarh.
The total population of Panchagarh is 637,198 where men are 429490, women are 40606. Muslims are 890693, Hindus are 142350, Buddhists are 2194, Christians are 42 and others are 617. There are so many water bodies in Panchagarh. Karatoya, Atrai, Mahananda, Tangan, Dahuk, Pathraj, Talma, Nagar, and Chawai rivers are significant among them.
History
The government of Panchagarh was a thana in the Jalpaiguri region of West Bengal during the British law. During the barrier of the country in 1947, it became part of the Dinajpur neighborhood. Panchagarh subdivision was shaped in 1960 with Panchagarh, Boda, Debiganj, Atwari, and Tentulia thanas. It was rolled into an area in 1984.
Circumstances of the battle of independence at the beginning of the battle of liberation, 2 EPRs of Panchagarh Sadar Upazila were martyred and 17 Pakistani fighters were killed. The guerrillas conquered the Chawai river bridge near the Amarkhana center in the Sadar area to quit the Pakistani corps from walking north. From the 19th to the 30th of April, the Pakistani corps brutally murdered more than 50 naive people in the Upazila town and Mir Garh.
In the last week of April, the Pakistani corps murdered 11 people at Fakirganj Hat in Atwari Upazila. On 28th May they attacked Radhanagar village in the same Upazila and killed 6 people and on 3rd of June killed 5 people in Sukhati village. In July, the Pakistani corps murdered 18 people at Amarkhana in Sadar. Eleven native people of Dhamor village of Atwari Upazila were spotted dead by the Pakistani corps at Naya Dighi surf.
At the stop of October, the Pakistani corps murdered 26 people in the Duhapara village of Toria, and in November 18 people were murdered in Diagari of Debiganj Upazila. The folk communities are Bhavaya songs, Satya Pir songs, Janger songs, Vaishnava songs, Baul songs, Morsi, Natua, Gurusangeet, Kirtan, Kabi songs, folk songs, folk dramas, proverbs, rhymes, riddles. These are more significant.
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Writer: Shanjana Hossain
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