Baliati Zamindari

Coordinates: 23°59′43″N 90°02′31″E / 23.9952°N 90.0419°E / 23.9952; 90.0419
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Baliati Zamindari
Baliati palace in Manikganj
CountryBangladesh
FounderGobinda Ram Shaha
Websitebaliatipalace.com
Balcony of palace no. 1

Baliati Zamindar Bari (Bengali: বালিয়াটি জমিদার বাড়ি) is in the village of Baliati, in Saturia Upazila in Manikganj District, Bangladesh.[1] It is the palace of the Zamindars, the Baliati Zamindari who ruled over a large area. The Baliati Jamindar Bari is located at 23°59′43″N 90°02′31″E / 23.9952°N 90.0419°E / 23.9952; 90.0419.

History

Gobinda Ram Shaha was the settler of the

zamindari at Baliati. He was a salt merchant. He inherited the business from his parent, then he extended that business further and established the zamindari. The zamindari extended to Narayanganj District
.

Architecture

There are seven palaces. The palace area occupies around 5.88 acres (23,800 m2) of land, enclosed within a moat and a perimeter wall. There are about 200 rooms inside the premises. At the back of the Palace is a pond (dighi).

Abolition

At the end of the 18th century, Zamindar Harendra Kumar Roy Chowdhury officially sold some parts of the Zamindari of Narayanganj to Sreemoti Alladi BiBi who was the owner of

Talluk
and her husband Zamindar Rahim Bakhsh Haji. The palaces have been administered by the Bangladesh archeological department since 1987. And it is said that after separation in 1947, all the ancestors left for India.

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See also

References

  1. OL 30677644M
    . Retrieved 27 April 2024.

Further reading

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