A Report on the District of Jessore; Its Antiquities, Its History, and Its Commerce (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3the indirect effects of this determination of the current, namely, the destruction of the Magurah house, an embankment was thrown across at Kasinathpur. It has saved the house perhaps, but it has delayed for many many years the natural process of the elevation of the land. Had the embankment not been put up, we would have seen a new river coming down from Kasinathpur to the Katki channel, a new centre from which the silting up process in the delta might proceed. This piece of country now gets very little silt-laden water from higher rivers. The only channel that brings down to it any considerable quantity of water is one which, coming from the Kumar acrpss the Nabaganga, near Jhenida, pours southward by a channel known as the Dhopaghatta channel. PART II.?ANTIQUITIES. IH.?textit{Traditions of Khan Jahan AH?textit{The ruins at Baghahat, textit{Masjidkur, fyc.?A.D. 1450. Some of the earliest traditions, and some of the oldest ruins in the district of Jessore, connect themselves with the Khanja AH, name of Khanja Ali, who lived four centuries since; so long ago, that it is a matter of difficulty to find out exactly who and what he was. So much is certain, both from the traditions and from the marks that he has left behind him, that he came to the district with a large body of men, and that he and his men resided for a long time in the district. This is a matter, however, that can best be discussed when we have first described the traces which he has left of his presence. 2. Euins which there is reason to attribute to Khanja Ali are to be found in various parts of the district; but they occur in the greatest abundance near Baghahat, on the outskirts of the Sundarbans, the place which is declared by tradition to have been his residence. 3. From the bank of the Bhairab river at Baghahat ther...