Fascinating Bengal

[TopCat]

I like the Second Pic from your 1st post


I like His Well Tonned body , hard Working People .

Yap you are right on the money. I think he does not belong to worker class means, not a farmer or fisher man but a soldier. His body, face and well groomed hair style suggest that.

There are other things that I noticed. People seemed healthy, they used to wear mostly unstiched clothings with no color. Color might be a item of luxury. The cap that they were wearing looks smaller than what we wear now a days. Also people tend to grow longer hair.

The 3rd village not sure what their profession is. But the canal right in between the villagers and the village looks very neat. Plenty of water with so many boats, very unusual for current day rivers in Bangladesh.

 

[Stumper]

BroBangl : Fantastic. Where did you get hold of this snaps?

 

[eastwatch]

Built for Provincial Secretariat Building, during 1910's- Railway track seen in the foreground.

Citizens of Dhaka waiting along Islampur Road to welcome Sir Fuller- 1905.

Minarless Ahsan Manjil-1888 (the presert Ahsan Monjil was built after the earthquake take place 1888)

The palace has enjoyed a varied history, starting from being Rang Mahal (of Sheikh Enayetullah, a Zamindar of Jamalpur pargana (Barishal) during the time of the Mughals) to a French trading centre. Nawab Khwaja Alimullah bought it from the French in 1830 and converted it into his residence, effecting necessary reconstruction and renovations. The final reconstruction was done by Martin & Company, a European construction and engineering firm, at the behest of Nawab Khwaja Abdul Ghani, who converted this house into the official Nawabi residence.
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Somewhere I have read that Sheikh Enayetullah was a big Zamindar who hailed from Faridpur. He might have properties in other districts. He was probably a contemporary of either Khwaja Alimullah or Khwaja Abdul Ghani, or both.

The Dhaka Nawab family (Khwaja) earned money in skins and hides in Sylhet, and then started to purchase lands and zamindaries. Sheikh Enayetullah's family fortune was declining and he sold much of his properties to this then upstart Nawab family.

Someone may correct me if I am wrong.

 

[eastwatch]

ANCIENT PICTURES OF DHAKA


A British Officer’s Mess in Dhaka – 1934 (Picture taken from a WirelessTower)
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Is the British Officers' mess known now-a-days as the Officers' Club? Can someone answer this?

 

[TopCat]

I think its the Palashi Barack which was between BUET and Eden college. I think it is given to BUET now.
It was a military barack but not sure whether its the one mentioned here.

 

[Jako]

kolkata

 

[Jako]

Howrah Bridge: View looking east across the Howrah Bridge towards Calcutta, from Howrah. The 1,530 foot bridge was built on floating pontoons (clearly seen here) in order to obviate possible silting which permanent piers might have caused. It was designed by Sir Bradford Leslie and erected in 1874. It was replaced by a cantilever bridge in 1943.

 

[Jako]

bathing at kalighat

 

[TopCat]

Jako could you mention the apporximate year when those shots were taken??
Thanks for posting. I am still waiting for Good Bengalis picture of 19th century or potrait of earlier centuries.

 

[Jako]

iajdani bhai,the second pic is in the 1940s..........dont know bout the other two

 

[Jako]

famous bengali/indian scientist Jagdish Chandra Bose

 

[Jako]

'BIDROHI KOBI' Kazi Najrul Islam

 

[Jako]

Rabindranath Tagore

 

[Chanakyaa]

famous bengali/indian scientist Jagdish Chandra Bose

This man is the First Inventor of Radio NOT Marconi !

 

[Jako]

True Xinix,he was a genious!!!!!!!!!!
who was also the first man to prove that PLANTS HAVE LIFE