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Masthangor oldest city of Bngladesh in bogra

In the light of these preliminaries, now let us see the importance of Pundranagara i.e.

Mahasthan as a historic city and an emporium of inland trade in the history of North

Bengal. Pundranagara which is considered as a metropolitan city of North Bengal in

ancient and medieval times stands on the western bank of the river Karatoya. This river

has now been reduced to an insignificant stream, even in some places it has silted up. But

in the thirteenth century A.D., as stated by Minhaj Siraj, it was as wide as three times of

the Ganges.

This river, as it seems, springing from the Himalayan mountain on the

furthest north of the Bhutan border passed through the districts of Darjeeling and

Jalpaiguri, and touching the districts of Dinajpur, Rangpur, Bogra and Pabna it fell in to

the Ganges i.e. Padma as shown in the map of Von Den Brooke.

Passing through the

various channels and under the different names, the Karatoya threw her water in the Bay

of Bengal and established her connection with the sea port of Chittagong. In the Karatoya

Mahatmya it is stated that from quite ancient time in the Push Narayanijug, the people of

Hindu extraction used to come to have bath for the purification of their sins in the bank of

Karatoya where now Mahasthan stands.

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In the Periplus of the Erythraen sea of about

the first century A.D. and the Geography of Plotemy of about the second century A.D.

there comes a reference to the province of 'Kirada’.

This is possibly the places on

either side of the river Karatoya as it is presumed that 'kirada' is a Greek version of the

river Karatoya. On the basis of this presumption the river Karatoya can be traced to a

long antiquity. In the seventh century A.D. Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese pilgrim, had to

cross a river ka-lo-tu i.e. Karatoya while reaching Kampura from Pundravardhana".

The river Bagmati

which according to Muslim chronicles was three times larger than

the Ganges and has been identified with the Karatoya flew close by the eastern side of

Mahasthan. The inscriptional and literary sources, if analysed, bear witness to this fact

that the Karatoya had always been a navigable river either carrying the merchandise-ships

or the war flotilla

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Bangladesh is a secular republic and a parliamentary democracy, with an elected parliament called the Jatiyo Sangshad. It is the eighth most populous country and among the most densely populated countries in the world. A high poverty rate prevails, although the United Nations has acclaimed Bangladesh for achieving tremendous progress in human development.Geographically, the country straddles the fertile Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta and is subject to annual monsoon floods and cyclones.The borders of present-day Bangladesh were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became East Pakistan, part of the newly formed nation of Pakistan. However, it was separated from the western wing by 1,600 km of Indian territory. Due to political exclusion, ethnic and linguistic discrimination, and economic neglect by the politically-dominant West Pakistan, popular agitation grew against West Pakistan and led to the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.

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The war broke out on 26 March 1971 as army units directed by West Pakistan launched a military operation in East Pakistan against Bengali civilians, students, intelligentsia, and armed personnel who were demanding separation of the East from West Pakistan. Bengali military, paramilitary, and civilians formed the Mukti Bahini and used guerrilla warfare tactics to fight against the West Pakistan army. India provided economic, military and diplomatic support to the Mukti Bahini rebels, leading Pakistan to launch Operation Chengiz Khan, a pre-emptive attack on the western border of India which started the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

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Jute of Bangladesh

For centuries, jute has been an integral part of culture of Bengal, in the entire southwest of Bangladesh and some portions of West Bengal. During the British Raj in the 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the raw jute fibre of Bengal was carried off to the United Kingdom, where it was then processed in mills concentrated in Dundee. Initially, due to its texture, it could only be processed by hand until it was discovered in that city that treating it with whale oil, it could be treated by machine[1] The industry boomed , but this trade had largely ceased by about 1970 due to the appearance of synthetic fibres.
Margaret Donnelly, a jute mill landowner in Dundee in the 1800s, set up the first jute mills in Bengal. In the 1950s and 1960s, when nylon and polythene were rarely used, one of the primary sources of foreign exchange earnings for the erstwhile United Pakistan was the export of jute products, based on jute grown in then East Bengal now Bangladesh. Jute has been called the "Golden Fibre of Bangladesh." However, as the use of polythene and other synthetic materials as a substitute for jute increasingly captured the market, the jute industry in general experienced a decline.
During some years in the 1980s, farmers in Bangladesh burnt their jute crops when an adequate price could not be obtained. Many jute exporters diversified away from jute to other commodities. Jute-related organisations and government bodies were also forced to close, change or downsize. The long decline in demand forced the largest jute mill in the world to close in Bangladesh. Bangladesh's second largest mill, Latif Bawany Jute Mills, formerly owned by businessman, Yahya Bawany, was nationalized by the government. Farmers in Bangladesh have not completely ceased growing jute, however, mainly due to demand in the internal market.
Jute has entered many diverse sectors of industry, where natural fibres are gradually becoming better substitutes. Among these industries are paper, celluloid products (films), non-woven textiles, composites (pseudo-wood), and geotextiles.
In December 2006 the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2009 to be the International Year of Natural Fibres, so as to raise the profile of jute and other natural fibres.

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Bangladesh biggest river Jamuna

The 'Jamuna River is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh. It is the main distributary channel of the Brahmaputra River as it it flows out of India into Bangladesh. The Jamuna flows south and joins the Padma River (Pôdda) near Goalundo Ghat. Merged with the Padma, it meets the Meghna River near Chandpur. Its waters then flow into the Bay of Bengal as the Meghna River.
The Brahmaputra-Jamuna is a classic example of a braided river and is highly susceptible to channel migration and avulsion.
The Jamuna was a barrier in establishing a direct road link between capital Dhaka and northern part of Bangladesh better known as Rajshahi Division until 1996. This was mitigated by the completion of the Jamuna Multi-Purpose Bridge.
The Jamuna is a braided stream characterised by a network of interlacing channels with numerous sandbars enclosed in between them. The sandbars, known in the Bengali as chars do not, however, occupy a permanent position. The river deposits them in one year very often to destroy and redeposit them in the next rainy season. The process of deposition erosion and redeposition has been going on continuously making it difficult to precisely demarcate the boundary between the district of Pabna on one side and the district of Mymensingh Tangail and Dhaka on the other. Breaking of a char or the emergence of a new one is also a cause of much violence and litigation.
The Jamuna is a very wide river. During the rains it is about 5-8 miles from bank to bank. Even during the dry season when the waters subside, the breadth is hardly less than 2-3 miles.
The Jamuna is a very important waterway. It is navigable at all seasons of the year by large cargo and passenger steamers. Before Partition passenger steamers used to ply up to Dibrugarh in the State of AssaJn in Indian Union. At present two steamer ferry services interlink the district of Pabana with the districts of Mymensingh, Tangail and Dhaka. The Bangladesh Railway maintains a forry service between Serajganj in Pabna and Jagannathganj in Mymensingh. The other ferry service between Nagarbari in Pabna and Aricha in Dhaka is run by the C & B Department.