Rangpur District's History
Rangpur District which is in the Rangpur department has an area of 2380.45 square kilometers. The location of Rangpur is 25 ° 18 to 25 ° 57 north distance and 8 ° 56 to 89 ° 328 east longitude.
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Rangpur District which is in the Rangpur department has an area of 2380.45 square kilometers. The location of Rangpur is 25 ° 18 to 25 ° 57 north distance and 8 ° 56 to 89 ° 328 east longitude. It is bounded by Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat areas on the north, Gaibandha neighborhood on the south, Kurigram region on the east, and Dinajpur region on the west.
The entire population of Rangpur is 2542441 where men are 1306396 and women are 1235045. Muslims are 229690, Hindus are 229983, Buddhists are 561, Christians are 2060 and others are 748. Indigenous peoples like Santal, Oraon, Munda live in this region. There are few water bodies in Rangpur. Central rivers are Teesta, Yamuneshwari, Ghaghat, Karatoya, Chilli, and Ankhira.
History
The government of the Rangpur region was formed on the 1st of February in 1984. Circumstances of the freedom battle On the 3rd of March in 1971, the Pakistani army murdered and stole at Guptipara in Rangpur Sadar Upazila. On the 26th of March, the people of Mithapukur Upazila assaulted the cantonment. Several people were murdered and harmed. The Pakistani army occurred murder and looting in this Upazila. Among them, the genocide of Jayram Anwar Mouza of the Payraband Union is noteworthy.
On the 1st of April, the independence warriors shot dead the OC of Kaunia Upazila. On the 13th of April, the Pakistani corps brutally murdered 11 Bengali EPR units at Nabiganj in Pirganj Upazila. On the 17th of April, the Pakistani corps and its supporters accomplished a killing in Badarganj Upazila and burnt down the villages of Khalsa Hajipur, Buzruk Hajipur, Ghatabil, and Ramnathpur.
According to the theory for the murder of intellectuals by the invading battalions of Pakistan, Prof. Chittaranjan Roy, Prof. Byom Krishna Adhikari, on the campus of Carmichael College on April 30th, Professor Sunil Chandra brutally murdered Chakraborty in the nighttime of dusk and buried him in a bamboo forest near Dumdum Bridge. Moreover Prof. Kalachand Roy and his wife, Prof. Md. Abdul Rahman, Numerous pupils, and educators comprising Professor Shah Solaiman Ali were murdered.
At that period Rangpur Town Hall was suffering from the invading pressures. On the 26th of June, two Pakistani fighters arrived at a village near Teesta Bridge in Kaunia Upazila and attempted to assault a woman, but were destroyed by the villagers. Due to this the Pakistani army arrived in the village on the 30th of June and reached huge arson and murder. About 200 naive people were murdered. In August, the Pakistani corps caught and overdue murdered some population of Dara Par village in Sayar union of Taraganj Upazila.
In October, two Pakistani troopers and five Razakars were murdered in a war between the Pakistani corps and Mujib's guerrillas at Taltala in Shankardah village of Gangachara Upazila. The Pakistani corps arrived at the Taltola mosque in Upazila and murdered 16 worshipers. On the 2nd of December, one independent soldier was martyred and two others were harmed in a war between the independence soldiers and the Pakistani corps at Manurchhara in Parul union of Pirgachha Upazila.
On December 3rd A genocide snatched place at Barati Bridge on the river Jamuneshwari in Taraganj Upazila. On the 13th of December, 212 Razakars resigned at Gangachara police station. The tremendous Rangpur district was liberated on the 16th of December when the Pakistani attackers quit the mutual corps.
The folk community of Rangpur is very famous and outstanding. Ballads, ascetic music, story, boy nacani music, trees, wedding song, frog wedding song, goyalira music, hudumara song, pathipati, ballads, Lalon Geeti, Bhawaiya, Bhatiali, Hason Raja songs, Abbas Uddin music, murshidi, marapatti, dehotatva, Harisava, rhymes, words, proverbs, sayings in the temple.
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Writer: Shanjana Hossain
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