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Front side of Naodanga Jaminder Bari |
Naodanga Jaminder Bari, a historical palace at
Naodanga union under Phulbari upazila of Kurigram district, is going to be
decomposed and destroyed due to lack of proper care.
The archeological structure,
Naodanga Jaminder Bari, attracts many visitors everyday, though it is situated
in 25 kilometers off Kurigram town.
There were 9.45 acores of
land in the jaminder-house area. Of them, there are 3.85 acores of the land
under control of the union land revenue office while the rest 5.60 acores of
land have been gone to illegal occupations.
There were many structures
including bed-rooms, queen’s room, queen’s bath-room, drawing room, guest
house, kitchen, personal court-room, soldier house, torture cell, horse-shade,
pond with bathing-place, Durga Mondir (temple) and Shib-linga Mondir (temple)
in the area.
The Jaminder Bari was not
under proper care of the definite authority or person when the next generations
of the Jaminder (land-lord) Promod Ranjon Bakshi went to Calcutta in India
after canceling Jamidary custom in the country, local Nayan said.
As a result, most important
parts of the Jaminder Bari have been gone away to some unscrupulous locals
accordingly.
Now there are some bad
structures including about 100-meter building, the main gate for entering into
house, queen’s room (partially damaged), a staircase for climbing top of the
building, Durga Mondir (temple), Shub-linga Mondir (temple) and two ponds of
the lord-house area.
The Shib-linga temple,
covered with various parasites, is now in deplorable condition where several
cracks have developed. There is a big black Shib-linga of about 12-mound-weight
in the temple. Locals of Hindu communities worship still there.
Repairing Durga Mondir
(temple), which is situated in the indoor area of the lord-house, locals of
Hindu community have been worshiping there. A gathering for Geeta recitation is
held there on every Sunday.
Naodanga High School and
College has been set up in front side of the Jaminder Bari. The school
authority is cultivating fishes in the ponds taking lease.
It is learnt the land-lord
(Jaminder) Sree Promad Ranjan Bakshi built the palace in a time of non-divided
Bharat-Barsha (India) reign. He has three sons, one daughter and one wife.
His daughter Pitu was
married with the Mirpur Jaminder (land-lord) in Rangpur.
His first son Bireswar
Prashad Bakshi was a judge of Calcutta court under West Bengal province in
India while the third son Bipuleswar Proshad Bakshi was an Engineer.
The lord Promad Ranjan
Bakshi gave the charge of lordship to his second son Bissheswar Proshad Bakshi
as he (Bissheswar) could not completed the entrance school certificate.
Jaminder Bissheswar Proshad
Bakshi was established a minor school (now Naodanga Government Primary school)
in his reigns and set up a mela (festival) to observe Lord Sree Krisna’s birth
day, which is observed still here every year.
After being omitted the
jamindar system, they went for permanently living to Calcutta in India. Later
Promod Ranjon Bakshi died in a hospital in Calcutta.
But the jaminder Bissheswar
Proshad Bakshi and along his family came after the liberation war’71 here to
attend in a religious festival.
Chairman of Naodanga union
parishad Md. Mushabber Ali said, “Hundreds people come to visit the Naodanga
Jaminder Bari and watch the sign of Jaminders’ reigns. We could get visitors
here for years if the concerned department take care to safe the rest parts of
the Naodanga Jaminder Bari.”
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