Nawab Islam Khan had gone down in history as one of the most iconic Mughal subahdars, a leader who successfully brought (majority of) Bengal under ... Mughal barges in Dhaka that belonged to ...

There is an area in Old Dhaka which is referred to as Chandnighat. How did it get such a romantic name? Chandni (Moonlight) was in fact the name of a royal Mughal barge, and the ghat it was kept ...

In the history books used in school, I was taught that in 1610, the Mughal custodian Islam Khan came to Dhaka to remove the powerful kings and zaminders of Bengal. He decided to establish the capital ...

The partition had opened a Pandora’s Box. The communal identities it created eventually culminated into the end of British ...

Though its roots extend back to the 1st millennium CE, Dhaka didn't ascend to prominence until the 17th century. It then flourished as the capital of the Muslim Mughal dynasty of Bengal province (1608 ...