Ancient place in bangladesh

Dinajpur Rajbari

Dinajpur Rajbari or Palace is situated on the north-east outskirts of the Dinajpur town. The name of the spot well-known as "Raj Batika", near to the village Rajarampur.

History says that Raja Dinaj or Dinaraj is the establisher of the Dinajpur Rajbari. But others say that after usurping the Ilyas Shahi rule, the familiar "Raja Ganesh" of the early fifteenth century was the true founder
of this Rajbari. At the end of the seventeenth century Srimanta Dutta Chaudhury became the zamindar of Dinajpur and after him, his sister's son Sukhdeva Ghosh hereditary the property as Srimanta's son had a
premature death

The Rajbari is entered through a tall, arched lion-gate facing west. One will find a daintily painted Krishna temple on the left, some abandoned outhouses in front and another gateway to the right which provides access to an inner square courtyard on about 100 square feet. Facing inward to the open courtyard on the east is a flat roofed large temple or nat mandir. The temple is exclusively decorated with attractive stucco floral motifs, while the front verandah is supported on four semi-Corinthian pillars and the main hall carried on another set of columns.

The Rajbari consist principally of three groups of Mahals (blocks), named as Aina Mahal, Rani Mahal and Thakurbadi Mahal, sides other minor buildings, established by different Rajas and Zamindars at tomes to times. A few number of temples, rest houses, charitable dispensaries, tanks and building of employees and retainers were also made within the Rajbari area. The total area of Rajbari is16.41 acres of land including 2 big tanks on the east and south, the moat, garden, zoo, a tennis court, Katchary and the House of Kumar