Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Heritage of Sylhet::Bangladesh


Shrine of Saint Hazrat Shah Jalal is the major historical significance in Sylhet city. nowadays more than six hundred years later than his death, the shrine is visited by countless devotees of all class and belief, who make the trip from far away places. Legend says, the grand saint who came from Arab to sermonize Islam and conquered the then Hindu king Gour Gobinda, distorted the witchcraft followers of the king into catfishes which are still lively in the container neighboring to the shrine Swords, the sacred Quran and the ceremonial dress of the sacred saint are still conserved in the shrine.


Three km to the northeast of the circuit house, the Shahi Eidgah was built lying on a hill by the Moghol ruler Aurangazeb in the 17th century. It looks like a grade castle but is in fact destined for Eid congregation-the 2 major Muslim festivals.

Natural Beauty of Sylhet::Bangladesh


Jaflong is one of the main beautiful tourist spots in Sylhet. It's regarding 60 km distant from Sylhet city and takes 2 hours drive to arrive there. Jaflong is moreover a charming spot close to amidst tea estate and rate splendor of rolling stones from hills. It is located besides the river Mari in the knee of Hill Khashia. plenty of wild beast lives in jungle, so you have to be cautious to go into the jungle alone. You can observe the way of life of Tribe Khashia in Jaflong. If you aim to trip Jaflong it is suitable to begin from Sylhet in the early morning so that you can return by evening covering the other tourists spots of close by areas of Jaflong. The other tourist areas close by Jaflong are Tamabil, Sripur and Jaintapur.

 
Tamabil is the boundary region with India and is 05 km from Jaflong. If you aim to trip Shilong then you will have to cross this boundary by finishing your customs official procedure. To go to India you need valid Visa.


Sripur is one more attractive tourist spot wherever you can see the falls with enormous surge falling form the hills. Besides the  charming views of the spot, one can as well have a sight of the waterfalls crossways the boundary of India. Very giant stones now and then are coming in this waterfall in Sripur. After conclusion of visiting Jaflong and Tamabil you have to trip Sripur on the way to go back to Sylhet. It’s just 7-8km as of Jaflong on the similar way to Sylhet a sub highway entered keen on Sripur waterfall. Here you can observe the stone collection and orange garden if you go indoor Sripur crossing the hills.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Natural Beauty of Bangladesh


Cox's Bazar
Cox's Bazar is attractively located on low range of sand hills among the Baghkhali and the Bay of Bengal with a extended open coast towards the sea. The city is named after lieutenant Cox, who died at this point in 1798 later than he had established a settlement of Mogh who wanted protection in British area later than the occupation of Arakan by the Burmese. Two third of the people of the city are descendants of these refugees. Miles of golden sands soaring cliffs, pagodas and tribes, lovely seafood this is Cox's Bazar, the tourist capital of Bangladesh. Having the world's longest (120-km) beach slopping smoothly down to the blue waters of the Bay of Bengal. Cox's Bazar is one of the most beautiful tourist spots in the country.

Inani
Inani about 32 kilometers to the south of Cox's Bazar and just on the beach, with the sea to the west and a backdrop of vertical hills to the east. It is simply half an hour's drive from Cox's bazar and a perfect place for hunting, sea bathing and picnic.

Teknaf
80 kilometers south of Cox's Bazar is a delightful spot on the West Bank of Naf river. A little town, it has arrangements for picnic hunting and boating. A tour by jeep to Teknaf from Cox's Bazar at sunrise, is a extraordinary incident.

Saint Martin's Island
13 kilometers south west of the southern tip of the mainland, is a tiny coral island being fringed with coconut palms, varieties of atypical sea shell, jade shingle corals, and sea life like soaring fishes, dolphins and ocean tortoises

Monday, June 18, 2012

Dhaka:The Capital City Of Banglash


Dhaka is the capital and major metropolitan city of Bangladesh. It is situated in the geographic midpoint of the country in the great deltaic area of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. Dhaka is served by the docks of Narayanganj, situated 16 km to the southeast. The metropolis is in the monsoon weather region, with an yearly average temperature of 25 deg C and monthly means varying between 18 deg C in January and 29 deg C  in August. almost 80% of the yearly average rainfall of 1,854 mm occurs between May and September.
Dhaka is situated within one of the world's top rice- and jute-growing regions. Its industries include textiles (jute, muslin, cotton) and food processing, particularly rice milling. A variety of additional customer commodities are also manufactured at this point. The Muslim influence is reflected in the more than 700 mosques and historic buildings establish throughout the city. Dhaka is separated into an old city and the new city, and a lot of  housing and business communities.
Dhaka was founded in the 10th century. It served as the Moghal capital of Bengal from 1608 to 1704 and was a trading center for British, French, and Dutch interests earlier than coming under British control in 1765. In 1905 it was once more named the capital of Bengal, and in 1956 it became the capital of East Pakistan. The city suffered serious scratch during the Bangladesh battle of independence (1971). The romanized spelling of the Bangla name was changed from Dacca to Dhaka in 1982.

The Shat Gombuj Mosque is well-known for it's chronological significance. It is one of supreme mosques in Bangladesh for its magnificent attractiveness.It is located in Bagerhat besides theBay of Bengal, also the greatest mangrove forest of Sundarban.In the king of Sultan Mahmud Shah( 1435-1459 ) is established Khalifabad region under saint Khan Jahan made this glorious mosque at 1459 . It took's more than a few year to complete it. It's total length is 160 feet and total wide is 108 feet. The top of the mosque is supported by 77 squat domes. The huge prayer hall of the mosque has 11 vaulted doorways on east and 7 each on north and south for the freshening and daylight. It has 7 longitudinal corridors. Architecturally, the internal and surface of the mosque is rather plain. But the internal Western divider was adorned  magnificently with terracotta flowers and flora. It offers an notable look. UNESCO is before now declered this mosque as one of the historical place of the earth

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Sundarban:The Natural Heritage Of Bangladesh

The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the biggest such forests in the earth (140,000 ha), lying on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on top of the Bay of Bengal. It is neighboring to the boundary of India’s Sundarbans World Heritage site adorned in 1987. The site is intersected through a multifaceted system of tidal waterways, mudflats and little islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests, and presents an outstanding instance of continuing natural processes. The region is famous for its extensive variety of fauna, as well as 260 bird genus, the Bengal tiger with other endangered genus such as the estuarine crocodile and the python.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Last Nawab Of Bangladesh


Siraj-ud-Doula (1756-57), the favourite grandson of alibardi, ascended the throne on the passing away of Alivardi. The adolescent Sultan faced the two-sided dilemma of the ambitions of the progressively more powerful British and the conspiracy of his discontented relatives and bureaucrats. 

He tried to come across these by first robbing his absorbing aunt, Begum Ghasiti, of her assets and tumbling the position of the leader (Bakshi) of the majestic military, Mir-Jafar. On the 24 May 1756 Siraj taken the Cossimbazar industrial unit of the British. Then he went on to take up Calcutta in June 1756. But after that he had to go to Purnea, Bihar to reduce the mutiny of cousin Shaukat Jang, a pretender to the throne. Taking benefit of this circumstances the British combined army and re-conquered Calcutta in February 1757 and followed by struck a surreptitious agreement by Mir-Jafar. The British captured The French industrial unit at Chandernagore. The French wanted protection from the Nawab. The Nawab and the British soldiers, under Robert Clive, met for the last round at Plassey. In an proceed of vast treachery by Mir-Jafar, Siraj was routed on the 23rd June 1757, and killed. Mir-Jafar ascended the throne of Bengal.

Monday, June 4, 2012

History Of Early Bengal


 Bangladesh is the eastern part of the significant area of Bengal. The Bengalis look upon the four centuries of rule by the Pala empire (8th to 12th century) as their supreme phase. Under the Palas, Bengal was wealthy and politically influential, a heart of Buddhist knowledge and civilization. In the 13th century Islam was introduced by Muslim invaders. following centuries of rule by sovereign kings, Bengal was occupied in 1576 by Akbar, the Mogul ruler of India. Mogul authority declined in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the British and French vied for power of Bengal. British domination was certain in 1757 by Robert Clive, who captured French trading posts and conquered France's Bengal associates in the combat of Plassey.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Brief History

The history of Bangladesh as a nation state began in 1971, when it seceded from Pakistan. earlier to the making of Pakistan in 1947, modern-day Bangladesh was part of ancient, classical, medieval and colonial India.

The area's early history featured a sequence of Indian empires, interior power struggle, and a fight between Hinduism and Buddhism for power. Islam made its first emergence for the period of the 12th century while Sufi missionaries indoors. soon after, infrequent Muslim raiders reinforced the method of renovation by building mosques, madrassas and Sufi Khanqah.

The boundaries of current Bangladesh were established by the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the area became East Pakistan, part of the recently formed Islamic State of Pakistan. but, it was divided as of the western wing by 1,600 km (994 mi) of Indian land. outstanding to political omission, racial and linguistic intolerance, as well as financial neglect by the politically prevailing West Pakistan, popular protest led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman grew in opposition to West Pakistan, follow-on in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which the Bengali people won by way of the support of India. After liberty, the new state endured famine, natural disasters and widespread poverty, as well as political disorder and military coups. The re-establishment of democracy in 1991 has been followed by relative calm and economic progress.

History Of Bangladesh


Bangladesh came to today's figure from end to end a long history of political growth. Bengal was most likely the wealthiest piece of the subcontinent up till the 16th century. The area's before time history featured a progression of Indian empires, internal power struggle, and a clash between Hinduism and Buddhism for dominance. All of this was just a prologue to the unstoppable tide of Islam which washed over northern India at the end of the 12th century. Mohammed Bakhtiar Khalzhi from Turkistan captured Bengal in 1199 among only 20 men.
Under the Mughal viceroys, art and literature flourished, overland do business prolonged and Bengal was opened to world marine trade - the latter marking the death knell of Mughal power as Europeans began to set up themselves in the region. The Portuguese arrived as near the beginning as the 15th century but were ousted in 1633 by local opponent. The East India Company negotiated terms to found a fortified trading post in Calcutta in 1690. 





The turn down of Mughal power led to greater regional autonomy, heralding the rise of the sovereign rule of the nawabs of Bengal. poor East India Company clerk Robert Clive ended up successfully ruling Bengal when one of the impulsive nawabs attacked the booming British commune in Calcutta and overfed those ill-fated enough not to get away in an subversive basement. Clive retook Calcutta a year later and the British administration replaced the East India Company following the Indian revolution in 1857.
 
The Britons recognized an secretarial and social formation unequaled in Bengal, and Calcutta became one of the most main centers for trade, tutoring and civilization in the subcontinent. However, many Bangladeshi historians charge the British autocratic farming policies and endorsement of the semi-feudal zamindar organism for demanding the county of its prosperity and negative its social structure. The British existence was a help to the marginal Hindus but a tragedy for the Muslims. The Hindus cooperated with the Brits, inflowing British learning institutions and studying the English language, but the Muslims refused to cooperate, and rioted when crops disastrous or another local product was rendered unbeneficial by government strategy.