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Title
Hemnagar Raj Bari
Location

District: Tangail

Upazila: Gopalpur

Union: Hemnagar

The Rajbari is located at a place called Hemnagar Bazar in Hemnagar Union at a distance of 11 km from Gopalpur Upazila.

Transportation

From Gopalpur Upazila and Bhuapur Upazila it is possible to go to the location of Rajbari by private car, bus, CNG, auto. Currently Hemnagar Degree College has been established within the Rajbari. 11 km from Gopalpur upazila and 15 km from Bhuapur upazila; located at a distance.

Details


Gopalpur does not have that zamindar

The broken palace is a witness of time


In our country no influential king like Emperor Shah Jahan or Pharaoh was born. So Taj Mahal, Pyramids or Babylon like empty gardens were not built. But then too, scattered in remote areas of our country are many immortal kirtis, zamindar houses of old times. The exact news of which may be unknown to many of us. There is such a zamindar house in Hemnagar of Gopalpur upazila of Tangail district.

There is no landlord here today. The zamindar does not even have a palanquin of thousands of beharas. But even today there are many so-called infamous stories of zamindars. The zamindar house of Hemnagar stands tall as a living witness of such a story. The buildings with many stories have kept the history of the old days alive among the people.

About 15 km from Gopalpur upazila headquarters. Mr. To the west lies the picturesque village of Hemnagar in the shade of natural beauty. A union and historical place of upazila. Where the two-storied building of Hembabu's zamindar house of eighteenth century craftsmanship still stands proudly with its old tradition. There is a big field in front of the house. As soon as you cross the field, you can see two fairy sculptures on the roof of the two-storied building. So people call it Pari Dalan. This one hundred room house is built on about thirty acres of land. A quadrangular zamindar palace has been built with a court house in front and rows of houses on both sides. There are two large ponds in front of the grounds of the zamindar house surrounded by a three feet wide wall and behind the house. Zamindar family had a great role in the development of education and culture. Next to the zamindar palace, there was a zoo, a drama house. It used to be the center of examination of the culture (adya) of East Bengal until then.

Kalibabu Chaudhuri, the father of Hemnagar zamindar Heremb Chandra Chaudhuri, was a businessman. He bought the zamindari of Shimulia Pargana under the Sunset Act. Kalibabu Chowdhury had four sons and four daughters. Hareswar Chandra Choudhury, the eldest son, was given the responsibility of looking after the zamindari. He later built a zamindar bari and managed zamindari in Ambaria state under Madhupur upazila of Mymensingh district. But it became impossible to manage the vast area from Amaria to the eastern bank of the Yamuna and from there to Madhupur Gad. So he built a second house in the village named Suvarnakhali of Gopalpur upazila and made it a zamindari palace. When Suvarnakhali was lost due to river erosion, he built a royal palace in Shimla Para village around 1880 and named the area Hemnagar after himself. Heremb Babu's younger brother Prafulla Chandra Chowdhury was thinking of building another house in Hadira's Syedpur village, so a locality there too was named Prafullanagar.

Hembabu's zamindar palace, the way it was built in the early days, has been swept away by the speed of time. Some despicable people have sold the bricks and wood of the building overnight at the price of water. Although many plants were uprooted, not all were able to be eradicated. The picturesque palaces that once pulsated here are now only a thing of the past. Memories of thousands of years are intertwined, the zamindar house is a witness of the past and is facing destruction today. Craftsmanship walls have collapsed, doors and windows are broken, buildings surrounding the landlord's house have been destroyed long ago. Yet what is there is much, much more. Many of those are silent witnesses of the power of the landlords of those days.

In that case, it is necessary to say that Zamindar Babu was the possessor of Bahugun. He was a beautiful ruler, a humanitarian above all, a just judge, a lover of education and a cultivator. He established Shasimukhi Secondary English High School in 1900 on about twenty acres of land in the name of his widowed stepmother. At that time, English was taught from here. His name is recorded as number four in the list of ten donor members in the establishment of Anandamohan University College, Mymensingh. Hemchandra Chowdhury established the Chandranath temple located at Sitakunda in Chittagong district. He played a leading role in the establishment of Tangail District Ukilbar. He donated land and money to establish Gopalpur Suti VM Pilot High School. He contributed heavily to the establishment of Pingna High School in Sarishabari Upazila of Jamalpur District. At that time, artists from Calcutta were brought to the Hemnagar village to light the lamps on the generator and stage plays. Language and literature were also practiced there. Every day in the month of Ramadan, iftar was arranged for the fasting people. Dak bungalow was established for this purpose. For the convenience of the common people, he constructed wells at the junctions of the roads and dug a large number of ponds. He was very kind and the priest of beauty. His exquisitely crafted residence built amidst the natural landscape of Hemnagar bears witness to this day.

Critics say, these were done for their own needs. Along with these feats, they have also done some disgraceful deeds. Subjects had to forcefully bow their heads to leave the zamindar's palace. They were punished if they walked along the road next to the house with their shoes on and umbrellas on their heads. They did nothing in the service of rural humanity. Rather, they have absorbed the last drop of blood from the hearts of the people of the poor rural areas. Sometimes he used to bring famous and expensive baiji from Calcutta. They used to take the Nikkan of Nupur in the secret palace of this infamous village. Furti continued all night. The zamindar's house of Hemnagar was washed away by the flood of that furti. But the common people would not be lucky enough to see all those baijis. However, those who used to obey orders in the zamindar's house could only get a glimpse. Today those landlords are thrown into the abyss of time.

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