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[name] => {:en}Megalithic Tombs Stone{:}{:bn}প্রাগৈতিহাসিক যুগের স্মৃতিস্তম্ভ{:}
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[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/places/megalithic-tombs-stone/
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This glorious place, of Megalithic Tombs Stone, holds the remaining pieces of Jainta Kingdom. The damaged Rajbari or King's palace, Jainteshvari temple, and megalithic monument are found here. Megalithic monument is the best heritage structure among these. There is no other megalithic monument in Bangladesh other than this. Jaintiapur is the only place in Bangladesh where Meghalithic remnants have been discovered.
Due to its geophysical condition the region remained independent for a long time and was well known as Jaintapur Kingdom. As such it was mentioned in Epic, Puranic, and Tantric literatures. However, a number of local legends, folk tales, and inscriptions suggest that from approximately the 7th/8th century AD Jaintapur came under the control of Kamarupa Kingdom and that later it went under the control of the Chandra and Varman rulers.
After the fall of the Varmans, Jaintapur was again ruled for some time by the Deva dynasty. Jayanta Ray, the last ruler of the Deva dynasty, had a daughter named Jayanti, who got married to a son of a Khasi chief, named Landowar. Due to this matrimonial alliance, Jaintapur kingdom went under the control of the Khasis in c 1500 AD. Subsequently, Khasi kings ruled over the kingdom independently till the British occupied it in 1835.
{:}{:bn}স্মৃতিস্তম্ভটি সিলেট সদর থেকে ২৫ মাইল দূরে ভারতের মেঘালয়ের নিকটে এই প্রাগৈতিহাসিক যুগের স্মৃতিস্তম্ভ অবস্থিত। এ স্থানে রয়েছে জৈন্তা সাম্রাজ্যের অবশিষ্ট স্মৃতি। এখানে আপনি ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত রাজবাড়ি, জৈন্তেসবাড়ি মন্দির, এবং সবচেয়ে আকর্ষণীয় প্রাগৈতিহাসিক যুগের স্মৃতিস্তম্ভ দেখতে পাবেন। জৈন্তাপুর ব্যাতিত বাংলাদেশের আর কোথাও প্রাগৈতিহাসিক যুগের স্মৃতিস্তম্ভ পাওয়া যায়নি।{:}
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[name] => Shahrail Boro Bari
[post_id] => 17381
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/places/shahrail-boro-bari/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/shahrail-boro-bari-11-300x224.jpg
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If you are travelling Singair Upazila of Manikganj District then there will be a significant number of options come to your hand for paying a visit. A traveler or explorer who is interested in travelling old houses, then we may suggest whenever you will reach there at Singair Bazar, you would rather take a left turn and cover a distance of around 7-8 km to get there at the old house name Shahrail Boro Bari (সাহরাইল বড় বাড়ি) situated nearby Charigram Bazar. We could not revealed actual history as it is not being well documented anywhere about this Old House.
It seems hard for ORB (Offroad Bangladesh) team to recover the elaborate background history of this place until there is any publication or thesis report being found. We observed people calling this house a zamindar Palace as it is very common trends in our country to name a Old house Zamindar Bari .
So far our experts team can assume is that this House could be a part of Zamindari estate previously as we have discovered so many palatial houses around the same district. But considering the structure, the building layout, and the decorative patterns that are still visible in open eyes we can say at best, it was possibly the residential block of the eminent officials of the estate.
Interviewing the local folks we came to know that this property belonged to two Saha brothers named Ram Mohon Saha and Koushik Saha who allegedly sold off the property to its current owner a former Member of Parliament, before migrating to India. The owner we were told is planning on dismantling the damages and renovating the building.
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[name] => Grave of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam
[post_id] => 11190
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/places/grave-of-national-poet-kazi-nazrul-islam/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Grave-of-Kazi-Nazrul-Islam-11-300x202.jpg
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Grave of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is situated just nearby the Public library of Dhaka University area. The Rebel Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was died in 1976 in Dhaka. Just after the liberation war he was taken back to our country Bangladesh. In the last days of his life he was sick both mentally and physically. According to his wish written as a lyric, he was buried beside the Mosque of University of Dhaka. A lot of people visit this place while crossing the TSC (Teachers -Students Center) of the University of Dhaka.
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[name] => Nazrul Memorial Center
[post_id] => 21924
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[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Nazrul-Memorial-Center-3-300x169.jpg
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Our National poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in Churulia of Burdwan(বর্ধমান) district, West Bengal on May 25, 1899. He spent a year of his boyhood in Kazir Shimla (কাজীর শিমলা) and Darirampur (দরিরামপুর) in Trishal, Mymensingh. He studied at Darirampur High School when he was in Class Seven and lodged at the house of Bechutia Bepari (বিচুতিয়া বেপারী) at Namapara, as his school was far from Kazir Shimla. In that regard, Namapara is given more importance than Kazir Shimla, say locals. Later, Kazi Rafizullah, a sub-inspector of police, took Nazrul to his village home at Kazir Shimla in 1914.
Nazrul memorabilia is symbolized by two Smriti Kendro (স্মৃতি কেন্দ্র) (Nazrul Memorial Center) in villages Kazir Shimla and Namapara, of Darirampur, Trishal draw the attention of visitors far and wide.
Nazrul memorabilia housed at the two center owns gramophones and records (released by His Masters Voice Company); manuscripts in Bengali, English, Hindi and Urdu and some rare black and white photographs of the poet. The memorabilia can be seen on the second floor of the center. The memorial centres also house a library with books authored by Nazrul and literary works on Nazrul by other writers.
Though the memorabilia collection is meagre, visitors flock enthusiastically to have a view. As every year, there has been a rush of visitors to the two Nazrul Smriti Kendra (memorial centres) at Kazir Shimla village and Darirampur in Trishal just ahead of the birth anniversary of the National Poet.
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This building has gone through several renovation and none of its antiquity left for the visitors. People only used to visit this place for its historical value. During the British period it was repaired heavily at 1807 and 1810. Also during the massive earthquake of 1897 caused a severe damage over this edifice. Now a days it just looks like a modern day’s building covering with rich tiles with heavy ornate. The Photograph was taken by Fritz Kapp in 1904 with a view of the Imambara Hussaini Dalan in Dacca (now Dhaka), overlooking the tank.
