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data-file-height="3640" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Ahsan Manzil, seat of the Nawab of <a href="/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Creation date</th><td class="infobox-data">1806</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First holder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Abdul_Ghani" title="Khwaja Abdul Ghani">Khwaja Abdul Ghani</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last holder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Habibullah" title="Khwaja Habibullah">Khwaja Habibullah</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Extinct</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Extinction date</th><td class="infobox-data">1952</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seat(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ahsan_Manzil" title="Ahsan Manzil">Ahsan Manzil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Nawab of Dhaka</b> (<a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>: "ঢাকার নবাব"), originally spelt in English <b>Nawab of Dacca</b>, was the title of the head of one of the largest Muslim <a href="/wiki/Zamindar" title="Zamindar">zamindar</a> in British Bengal and Assam, based in present-day <a href="/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The title of <i><a href="/wiki/Nawab" title="Nawab">nawab</a></i>, similar to the <a href="/wiki/British_peerage" class="mw-redirect" title="British peerage">British peerage</a>, was conferred upon the head of the family by <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> as a recognition of the first Nawab's loyalty and contribution to the social welfare activities. </p><p>Although the Nawabs of Dhaka were not sovereigns, they played an essential role in the politics of South Asia—and the relations with external entities. The family was proprietary of the Dhaka Nawab estate, seated at <a href="/wiki/Ahsan_Manzil" title="Ahsan Manzil">Ahsan Manzil</a> palace. "Nawab of Dhaka" was the title of the head of the family from 1843. <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Alimullah" title="Khwaja Alimullah">Khwaja Alimullah</a> was the first holder of the title, and <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Abdul_Ghani" title="Khwaja Abdul Ghani">Khwaja Abdul Ghani</a> was the first Nawab of Dhaka when the title was made hereditary by Queen Victoria. </p><p>Considerable infighting within the Nawab's family gradually led to the decline of the estate. In 1952, the East Pakistan Estates Acquisition Act formally abolished the estate. <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Habibullah" title="Khwaja Habibullah">Khwaja Habibullah</a> Khan Bahadur was the last Nawab of Dhaka to hold the office. Successive land reform in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> brought an end to the remaining landholdings of the Nawab family. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nawab%27s_Dilkusha_Garden,_Dhaka_(1904).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Nawab%27s_Dilkusha_Garden%2C_Dhaka_%281904%29.jpg/240px-Nawab%27s_Dilkusha_Garden%2C_Dhaka_%281904%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Nawab%27s_Dilkusha_Garden%2C_Dhaka_%281904%29.jpg/360px-Nawab%27s_Dilkusha_Garden%2C_Dhaka_%281904%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Nawab%27s_Dilkusha_Garden%2C_Dhaka_%281904%29.jpg/480px-Nawab%27s_Dilkusha_Garden%2C_Dhaka_%281904%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="712" data-file-height="574" /></a><figcaption>Nawab's Dilkusha Garden, Dhaka (1904) by Fritz Kapp.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Nawabs of Dhaka were <a href="/wiki/Persian_and_Urdu" title="Persian and Urdu">Persian and Urdu</a>-speaking<sup id="cite_ref-Bandyopadhyay2004_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bandyopadhyay2004-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chaube2016_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chaube2016-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Baxter1991_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baxter1991-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> aristocrats tracing their ancestry to Kashmiri <a href="/wiki/Khan_Mughals" title="Khan Mughals">Khan Mughal</a> merchants who arrived in <a href="/wiki/Mughal_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="Mughal Bengal">Mughal Bengal</a> during the reign of emperor <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Shah" title="Muhammad Shah">Muhammad Shah</a> to pursue trade, but eventually settled in the districts of <a href="/wiki/Dhaka" title="Dhaka">Dhaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sylhet" title="Sylhet">Sylhet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bakerganj" title="Bakerganj">Bakerganj</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Khan2013_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khan2013-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hundred_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hundred-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dani1962_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dani1962-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ahmed2018_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ahmed2018-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Baxter1991_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baxter1991-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NewtonWagenhauser1996_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewtonWagenhauser1996-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maulvi Khawaja Abdullah Kashmiri, who moved from Delhi in the late <a href="/wiki/Mughal_Empire" title="Mughal Empire">Mughal</a> era, is recorded as the first patriarch of the family in Bengal. Having established a successful business in Sylhet, he invited his father and brother from Kashmir.<sup id="cite_ref-Khan2013_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khan2013-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dani1962_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dani1962-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, the family settled in Dhaka.<sup id="cite_ref-Khan2013_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khan2013-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Dhaka Nawab family was officially established by <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Hafizullah" title="Khwaja Hafizullah">Khwaja Hafizullah Kashmiri</a> son of Khawaja Abdullah Kashmiri, who acquired considerable wealth via trade in leather and gold. His fortune was built upon trading leather, spices, and salt with Greek and Armenian merchants.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also purchased some floundering <a href="/wiki/Zamindari" class="mw-redirect" title="Zamindari">zamindari</a> estates, on sale everywhere in <a href="/wiki/Bengal" title="Bengal">Bengal</a> under <a href="/wiki/Permanent_Settlement" title="Permanent Settlement">Permanent Settlement</a>, and indigo factories in <a href="/wiki/Barisal_District" title="Barisal District">Barisal District</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mymensingh_District" title="Mymensingh District">Mymensingh District</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the following years, they married into renowned families in the locality to strengthen their hold over the newly acquired territories.<sup id="cite_ref-Chatterji2002_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chatterji2002-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hafizullah acquired Atia Pargana in the former <a href="/wiki/Mymensingh_District" title="Mymensingh District">Mymensingh District</a> (currently in the <a href="/wiki/Tangail_District" title="Tangail District">Tangail District</a>). Hafizullah bought a 4-anna (one fourth) share of the pargana, including <a href="/wiki/Dhamrai" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhamrai">Dhamrai</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Atia_Mosque" title="Atia Mosque">Atia Mosque</a> built in 1608, and much of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Madhupur_forest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Madhupur forest (page does not exist)">Madhupur forest</a> in 1806, on the strength of a mortgage bond for Rs. 40,000.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Profits gained from this purchase compelled him to engage further in the purchasing of land properties.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also acquired Aila Phuljhuri in the Bakarganj Sundarbans, a 44,000 acres (180 km<sup>2</sup>) area bought for Rs 21000 in 1812, at a revenue demand of only Rs 372 annually. After clearing of the jungle was affected, in the late 1870s, its estimated total rental income appeared as high as Rs 2,20,502.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to an absence of any surviving male successor of Hafizullah, his estate upon his death descended to his nephew <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Alimullah" title="Khwaja Alimullah">Khwaja Alimullah</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Hundred_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hundred-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ahmed2018_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ahmed2018-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> son of his deceased elder brother Ahsanullah, whom he had groomed as an estate manager. His landed acquisitions were added to those of his uncle, consequently making the united <a href="/wiki/Zamindari" class="mw-redirect" title="Zamindari">zamindari</a> as one of the largest in the province. Before his death in 1854, Alimullah made a <i><a href="/wiki/Waqf" title="Waqf">waqf</a></i> for a united status of the zamindari which was to be managed jointly by a <i><a href="/wiki/Mutawalli" class="mw-redirect" title="Mutawalli">mutawalli</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ahsan_Manzil_1965.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Ahsan_Manzil_1965.jpg/300px-Ahsan_Manzil_1965.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Ahsan_Manzil_1965.jpg/450px-Ahsan_Manzil_1965.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Ahsan_Manzil_1965.jpg/600px-Ahsan_Manzil_1965.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5015" data-file-height="3341" /></a><figcaption>Ahsan Manzil palace in 1965</figcaption></figure> <p>His nephew, Khwaja Alimullah, who was the third son of Khwaja Ahsanullah, is reported to have been an enterprising member of the clan, effectively laying the foundation upon which successive heads of the family established their prosperity and power. He purchased <a href="/wiki/Ahsan_Manzil" title="Ahsan Manzil">Ahsan Manzil</a>, which was then a French trading house. He had learnt English and encouraged members of his family to learn English, in addition to forging alliances with Englishmen by mixing with them freely. He had partaken in development work for the Dhaka Municipality, and with the aid of the British, he set up the Ramna Race course. He bought thoroughbreds for his race course and established the Gymkhana Club.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He purchased the famous diamond, <a href="/wiki/Daria-i-Noor" title="Daria-i-Noor">Daria-e-Noor</a> at a government auction in 1852, held by Hamilton and Company of Calcutta. The diamond was initially exhibited at <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Exhibition">The Great Exhibition</a> in Hyde Park but failed to sell for a desirable price, and was resultantly sent back to India. The other more famous diamond, also called Daria-i-Noor is presently being held in a vault of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Iran" title="Central Bank of Iran">Central Bank of Iran</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tehran" title="Tehran">Tehran</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1846 he made a Waqfnama in favour of his second son <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Abdul_Ghani" title="Khwaja Abdul Ghani">Khwaja Abdul Ghani</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NewtonWagenhauser1996_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewtonWagenhauser1996-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and made him a powerful Mutawalli (Manager) for the management of all the properties of the family. This aided in preserving the family wealth, as it could not be divided amongst descendants. That Waqfnama was the main key responsible for the future success of the family. Despite being a Sunni Muslim himself, Khwaja Alimullah financed the Muharram Festival of the Shia Muslims in Dhaka. He started in 1843 after the death of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghaziuddin_Haider&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ghaziuddin Haider (page does not exist)">Ghaziuddin Haider</a> who was the Naib Nazim of Dhaka. He died in 1854 and was buried in the Begum Bazar graveyard.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Khwaja Abdul Ghani, son of Khwaja Alimullah and Zinat Begum, was rendered the Mutawalli of the estate. On the succession of Khwaja Abdul Ghani to the management that the prosperity of the house reached its zenith. Under him the land control of the family was extended to many parganas in the districts of Dhaka, Bakerganj, <a href="/wiki/Tripura" title="Tripura">Tripura</a>, and Mymensingh. For management he split the zamindari into 26 sub-circles, each governed by a <i>kachari</i> (office) headed by a <i><a href="/wiki/Naib" class="mw-redirect" title="Naib">naib</a></i> (manager) with a number of <i>amlas</i> (officials). He was vested with the personal title of <a href="/wiki/Nawab" title="Nawab">Nawab</a> in 1875, which was made a hereditary title by Queen Victoria on 1 January 1877.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With Khwaja Abdul Ghani the Khwaja family for the first time developed interest in the politics and social works of the country. He also organised Dhaka people into <a href="/wiki/Panchayet" class="mw-redirect" title="Panchayet">panchayet</a> <a href="/wiki/Mahalla" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahalla">mahallas</a>, which was endorsed by the <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British Raj</a> in consideration of his support to the Raj during the <a href="/wiki/Sepoy_Mutiny" class="mw-redirect" title="Sepoy Mutiny">Sepoy Mutiny</a>. Nawab Abdul Ghani made several contributions towards benevolent and charitable work, not only in the city and elsewhere in Bengal but also beyond the Indian subcontinent. His most conspicuous public act was the water works system in Dhaka city. The filtered water was supplied free of charge to the people of Dhaka. In addition he established a number of schools, madrasas and donated funds for the Mitford hospital in Dhaka, Kolkata Medical College and Aligarh College. He supported women to act in dramas in spite of the opposition of leaders of the conservative society. At the beginning of the Christian era, each year, he arranged a grand fair in Shahbagh Garden, and maintained a Portuguese Band to entertain guests on festive occasions. He oversaw and financed the construction of <a href="/wiki/Buckland_Bund" title="Buckland Bund">Buckland Bund</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nawab Abdul Ghani handed over the responsibility of the Dhaka Nawab Estate to his eldest son, <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Ahsanullah" title="Khwaja Ahsanullah">Khwaja Ahsanullah</a> on 11 September 1868, but continued to supervise the estate until his death on 24 August 1896.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Khwaja Ahsanullah was born in Dhaka in the year 1846. He was an Urdu-Persian poet and his pen name was "Shaheen". His selected poems, <i>Kulliyat-e-Shaheen</i> is preserved at Dhaka University. His book, <i>Tarikh-e-Khandan-e-Kashmiriyah</i><sup id="cite_ref-Khan2013_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khan2013-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a vital addition to Urdu-Persian literature and history. Both father and son had the title of Nawab conferred upon them in 1875, and in 1877, this title was made hereditary for the eldest member of the line.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Nawab Ahsanullah established the Ahsanullah School of Engineering, and being thoughtful of the health of the residents of Dhaka he, along with his father, contributed towards the establishment of a water tank from which filtered water would be supplied to the citizens of Dhaka as far back as 1874.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:With_his_family_the_beared_Nabab_on_Eid_day..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/With_his_family_the_beared_Nabab_on_Eid_day..jpg/220px-With_his_family_the_beared_Nabab_on_Eid_day..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/With_his_family_the_beared_Nabab_on_Eid_day..jpg/330px-With_his_family_the_beared_Nabab_on_Eid_day..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/With_his_family_the_beared_Nabab_on_Eid_day..jpg/440px-With_his_family_the_beared_Nabab_on_Eid_day..jpg 2x" data-file-width="1069" data-file-height="971" /></a><figcaption>Nawab Sir Salimullah celebrating the Eid Day with his family at the <a href="/wiki/Ahsan_Manzil" title="Ahsan Manzil">Ahsan Manzil</a> palace</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Nawab_Salimullah" class="mw-redirect" title="Nawab Salimullah">Nawab Salimullah</a>, the second son of Ahsanullah took up the management of the zamindari in 1902. But soon family feuds started and Salimullah lost the grip on the estate. The estate management deteriorated to the extent of rising revenue arrears and estate debts. For political considerations, the government backed up Nawab Salimullah financially, which included a confidential official loan to Salimullah (1912) to clear up his personal debts. Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka and the Muslim aristocrats who formed the bulwark of the Muslim League in 1906 inspired Muslim peasants against the <a href="/wiki/Swadeshi_movement" title="Swadeshi movement">Swadeshi movement</a> (1905–1911) in support of <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Bengal_(1905)" title="Partition of Bengal (1905)">Partition of Bengal</a>. Together with <a href="/wiki/Nawab_Ali_Chowdhury" class="mw-redirect" title="Nawab Ali Chowdhury">Nawab Ali Chowdhury</a>, he was instrumental in initiating <a href="/wiki/A._K._Fazlul_Huq" title="A. K. Fazlul Huq">A. K. Fazlul Huq</a> into politics, who isolated Muslim League from peasants and defeated Sir <a href="/wiki/Khawaja_Nazimuddin" title="Khawaja Nazimuddin">Khwaja Nazimuddin</a> at the Patuakhali Constituency in the election of 1937. Dhaka Nawab Family, together with the <a href="/wiki/Ispahani_family" title="Ispahani family">Ispahanis</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kolkata" title="Kolkata">Kolkata</a> still kept a firm grip on a majority of Muslim students while the Bengal chapter of the All India Muslim Students Association was renamed as All Bengal Muslim Students League in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The tottering Dhaka Nawab Estate was brought under the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Wards_(India)" title="Court of Wards (India)">Court of Wards</a> in September 1907. The first steward of the Estate was HCF Meyer who was followed by LG Pillen, PJ Griffith, and PD Martin, all members of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_civil_service" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian civil service">Indian civil service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 16 December 1901, while he was posted in Mymensingh, he received a telegram informing him of the demise of his father, and on his arrival in Dhaka the next morning, as the eldest son, and with the "unanimous consent of all parties concerned" was installed as the new Nawab. Nawab Salimullah was a great educational reformer, and like his father, was inclined to prodigal liberality. He was a great philanthropist, rendering financial assistance to many poor students, and established the largest orphanage of undivided Bengal, which was named "Salimullah Muslim Orphanage". For the benefit of Muslim students he donated the well-known "Salimullah Muslim Hall" in Dhaka, which was then the largest residential Hall in any Asian University.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nawab Sir Salimuilah is mainly remembered today for three of his greatest achievements. Firstly, the part he played in the partition of Bengal which was implemented on 16 October 1905, aimed at freeing the Bengali Muslims from the bondage of Hindu domination, and to secure their socio-economic progress by establishing a separate Muslim majority province; secondly, for being the founder of such a strong political party as the All India Muslim League in December 1906, and the establishment of Dhaka University in 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As has so often happened in the great families of India, after five generations of splendour, the Nawab Family now entered on a period of decline. Extravagant living and the necessity of maintaining an ever-increasing number of dependents were the main causes of the trouble, but to them must be added, the considerable sums spent by Nawab Ahsanullah and Nawab Salimuilah on public service or pro-Partition propaganda. The family was heavily in debt and in view of the political importance of the family, its estates were brought under the Court of Wards in 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nawab Salimullah was the first man of the Nawab Family of Dhaka to actively participate in politics. He is reported to have said that, his grandfather, Nawab Sir Abdul Ghani, and his father, Nawab Sir Khwaja .Ahsanullah, were men of international renown and were imbibed with the love of their country and people, but, they refrained from participating in politics. It was in his destiny to open the door to politics for the Nawab Family of Dhaka. Nawab Sir Salimullah died in Calcutta on 16 January 1915, and his coffin was brought to Dhaka by a special launch, and he was buried in the family graveyard in Begum Bazar."<sup id="cite_ref-:4_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1934, the family had estates that covered almost 1200 km<sup>2</sup> and was well spread over different districts of Eastern Bengal, together with properties in Shillong, Assam, had an yearly rent of £120,000. With its wealth, social status and close relationship with the Raj, the family of the Nawab of Dacca was the single most powerful Muslim family in Bengal.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Dhaka Nawab Estate was abolished in 1952 under the East Bengal Estate Acquisition and Tenancy Act (1950). Only the Ahsan Manzil complex and khas lands held under raiyati rights were exempted from the operation of the Acquisition Act. But due to many unresolved family claims many assets of the Estate were still controlled by the Court of Wards. The land reforms board, which is the successor of the Court of Wards, still holds those assets on behalf of the family.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The influence of Dhaka Nawab family on the Muslim Students League eroded after the partition, particularly after <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a>'s pronouncement on the state language issue in 1948. The anti-Khwaja faction of the Muslim League broke away from the All Bengal Muslim Students League, and established East Pakistan Muslim Students League in 1948. This Students League spearheaded the <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language_movement" title="Bengali language movement">Language Movement</a> that began that year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Brief_genealogy">Brief genealogy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Brief genealogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <tbody><tr align="center" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; width: 12em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"> <th><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alimullah.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/Alimullah.jpg/80px-Alimullah.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="107" class="mw-file-element" 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Azam - Politician.</li> <li>Khan Bahadur Khwaja Ismail Zabih - Politician.</li> <li>Khwaja Nooruddin - Politician, journalist and owner of right wing English language newspaper published from Dhaka, <a href="/wiki/The_Morning_News_(Bangladeshi_newspaper)" title="The Morning News (Bangladeshi newspaper)">The Morning News (Bangladeshi newspaper)</a></li> <li>Syed <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Khairuddin" class="mw-redirect" title="Khwaja Khairuddin">Khwaja Khairuddin</a> - Politician and Mayor of Dhaka. Head of East Pakistan Muslim League.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Mohammed_Kaiser" title="Khwaja Mohammed Kaiser">Khwaja Mohammed Kaiser</a> - Diplomat.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasmeen_Murshed" title="Yasmeen Murshed">Yasmeen Murshed</a> - Businesswoman and founder of <a href="/wiki/Scholastica_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Scholastica School">Scholastica School</a>.</li> <li>Begum <a href="/wiki/Shamsunnahar_Khwaja_Ahsanullah" title="Shamsunnahar Khwaja Ahsanullah">Shamsunnahar Khwaja Ahsanullah</a>, wife of Nawabzada Khwaja Ahsanullah, former leader of the <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Nationalist_Party" title="Bangladesh Nationalist Party">BNP</a>, former BNP MP (1991–1995),<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1996,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2001-2006<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contributions">Contributions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Contributions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Extended kin of the Dhaka Nawab Family played a vital role in the history of <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a>-<a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> literature in Bengal. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Khwaja_Haider_Jan_Shayek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khwaja Haider Jan Shayek (page does not exist)">Khwaja Haider Jan Shayek</a>, Khwaja Kawkab, Khwaja Atiqullah Sayeda, <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Muhammad_Afzal" title="Khwaja Muhammad Afzal">Khwaja Muhammad Afzal</a> and Sir <a href="/wiki/Khawaja_Nazimuddin" title="Khawaja Nazimuddin">Khwaja Nazimuddin</a> KCIE, CIE and others contributed considerably to Urdu and Persian literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. The family maintained close connection with literary figures like Mahmud Azad and <a href="/wiki/Hakim_Habibur_Rahman" title="Hakim Habibur Rahman">Hakim Habibur Rahman</a>. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Khwaja_Muhammad_Azam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khwaja Muhammad Azam (page does not exist)">Khwaja Muhammad Azam</a> wrote <i>Islami Panchayet Dhaka</i> (1911) in Urdu. His son, Khwaja Muhammad Adel, co-edited <i>Jadu</i>, a monthly journal with Hakim Habibur Rahman. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Khwaja_Abdur_Rahim_Saba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Khwaja Abdur Rahim Saba (page does not exist)">Khwaja Abdur Rahim Saba</a> (d 1871) wrote Urdu poems. His manuscript, <i>Daste Saba</i> is preserved in the <a href="/wiki/Dhaka_University_Library" title="Dhaka University Library">Dhaka University Library</a>. Nawab Khwaja Ahsanullah wrote Urdu poems by his pen-name Shaheen collected in <i>Kulliat-e-Shaheen</i>, and a history of his family collected in <i>Ta'arīkh-e-Khândan-e-Kashmirian</i>. He was also a composer and lyricist of <a href="/wiki/Thumri" title="Thumri">thumri</a> songs, and a financier of <i>Ahsanul Kasas</i> (15 February 1884), an Urdu weekly magazine of Dhaka. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Photography">Photography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Photography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It was in the later part of the 19th century that the art of photography got its momentum in Dhaka under the patronage of Nawab Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Nawab Khwaja Salimullah. Khwaja Ahsanullah joined the Calcutta-based Photographic Society of India in 1888. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Palaces_of_the_Nawabs">Palaces of the Nawabs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Palaces of the Nawabs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Ahsan_Manzil_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahsan Manzil Palace">Ahsan Manzil Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israt_Manzil_Palace" title="Israt Manzil Palace">Israt Manzil Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nishat_Manzil_Palace&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nishat Manzil Palace (page does not exist)">Nishat Manzil Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shahbag_Garden_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Shahbag Garden House">Shahbag Garden House</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dilkusha_Garden_House&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dilkusha Garden House (page does not exist)">Dilkusha Garden House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paribagh" title="Paribagh">Paribagh Garden House</a></li> <li>Baigunbari Park</li> <li>Company Bagan</li> <li>Farhat Manzil</li> <li>Hafiz Manzil</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nilkuthi_Mojibnagar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nilkuthi Mojibnagar (page does not exist)">Nilkuthi Mojibnagar</a></li> <li>Mansur Castle</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A._K._Fazlul_Huq" title="A. K. Fazlul Huq">A. K. Fazlul Huq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huseyn_Shaheed_Suhrawardy" title="Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy">Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakim_Habibur_Rahman" title="Hakim Habibur Rahman">Hakim Habibur Rahman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asiatic_Society_of_Bangladesh" title="Asiatic Society of Bangladesh">Asiatic Society of Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shahbag" title="Shahbag">Shahbag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dilkusha,_Dhaka" title="Dilkusha, Dhaka">Dilkusha, Dhaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khilafat_Movement" title="Khilafat Movement">Khilafat Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_Partition_of_Bengal" class="mw-redirect" title="1947 Partition of Bengal">United Bengal Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_language_movement" title="Bengali language movement">Bengali language movement</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nawab_of_Dhaka&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFAlamgir" class="citation web cs1">Alamgir, Mohammad. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Nawab_Family_of_Dhaka">"Nawab Family of Dhaka"</a>. <i>en.banglapedia.org</i>. <a href="/wiki/Banglapedia" title="Banglapedia">Banglapedia</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Publishing Corporation. p. 82. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-7646-425-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-81-7646-425-3"><bdi>978-81-7646-425-3</bdi></a>. <q>Nawab Abdul Latif was forthright in his analysis: Urdu is the mother tongue of the Ashraf (the elite class) and Bengali is the mother tongue of the Athraf (the commoners)... The Nawab family of Dhaka, the Suhrawardy family of Midnapur, the Nawab family of Shaistabad in Bakerganj all spoke in Urdu...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bangladesh+Dichotomy+and+Politicisation+of+Culture&rft.pages=82&rft.pub=B.R.+Publishing+Corporation&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-81-7646-425-3&rft.au=P.+K.+Bandyopadhyay&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DgeltAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Chaube2016-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Chaube2016_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShibani_Kinkar_Chaube2016" class="citation book cs1">Shibani Kinkar Chaube (26 October 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6CElDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123"><i>The Idea of Nation and Its Future in India</i></a>. Taylor & Francis. p. 123. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-315-41432-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-315-41432-4"><bdi>978-1-315-41432-4</bdi></a>. <q>Urdu was never spoken in Bengal except by the immigrant Muslims in Calcutta and the Murshidabad and Dhaka nawab families.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Idea+of+Nation+and+Its+Future+in+India&rft.pages=123&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=2016-10-26&rft.isbn=978-1-315-41432-4&rft.au=Shibani+Kinkar+Chaube&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D6CElDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA123&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Baxter1991-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Baxter1991_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Baxter1991_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Baxter1991_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCraig_Baxter1991" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Craig_Baxter" title="Craig Baxter">Craig Baxter</a> (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rDWLAAAAMAAJ"><i>Government and politics in South Asia</i></a>. Westview Press. p. 250. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780813379050" title="Special:BookSources/9780813379050"><bdi>9780813379050</bdi></a>. <q><a href="/wiki/Khawaja_Nazimuddin" title="Khawaja Nazimuddin">Nazimuddin</a>, a member of the wealthy landed nawab of Dhaka family, was related to an earlier nawab whose palace was the site of the founding of the Muslim League in 1906. The family is Kashmiri in origin, often associated with British rule, Urdu-speaking at home, rarely politically fluent in Bengali, and part of the national elite.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Government+and+politics+in+South+Asia&rft.pages=250&rft.pub=Westview+Press&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=9780813379050&rft.au=Craig+Baxter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DrDWLAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Khan2013-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Khan2013_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Khan2013_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Khan2013_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Khan2013_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKhan2013" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Mojlum_Khan" title="Muhammad Mojlum Khan">Khan, Muhammad Mojlum</a> (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-2s9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA309"><i>The Muslim Heritage of Bengal: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of Great Muslim Scholars, Writers and Reformers of Bangladesh and West Bengal</i></a>. Kube Publishing. pp. 104, 157, 160, 309. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84774-062-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84774-062-5"><bdi>978-1-84774-062-5</bdi></a>. <q>Nawab Bahadur Sir <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Abdul_Ghani" title="Khwaja Abdul Ghani">Khwajah Abdul Ghani Miah</a>, also known as Ghani Miah (Gunny Meah) for short, was bom into a wealthy and prominent Muslim family that traced its origin all the way back to <a href="/wiki/Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Persia">Persia</a>... Nawab Sir <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Ahsanullah" title="Khwaja Ahsanullah">Ahsanullah Khan Bahadur</a> was thus born in Dhaka into one of the wealthiest and famous Muslim families of East Bengal. His grandfather, <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Alimullah" title="Khwaja Alimullah">Khwajah Alimullah</a>, and father, Nawab Sir <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Abdul_Ghani" title="Khwaja Abdul Ghani">Abdul Ghani</a>, traced their family history back to Kashmir... the founder of this family was Maulvi Abdullah who came to India during the time of Emperor Muhammad Shah... Maulvi Abdullah left Delhi and settled in Sylhet... Thereafter, he invited his father and brother to come to Sylhet from Kashmir... Maulvi Abdullah, the founder of the Nawab family, hailed from Kashmir and moved to Delhi during the reign of the Moghul Emperor, Muhammad Shah, in search of fame and fortune... <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Salimullah" title="Khwaja Salimullah">Salimullah</a>'s ancestors were originally Kashmiri merchants who came to East Bengal during the mid-eighteenth century to pursue trade and eventually they settled in the districts of Dhaka, Sylhet and Bakerganj...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Muslim+Heritage+of+Bengal%3A+The+Lives%2C+Thoughts+and+Achievements+of+Great+Muslim+Scholars%2C+Writers+and+Reformers+of+Bangladesh+and+West+Bengal&rft.pages=104%2C+157%2C+160%2C+309&rft.pub=Kube+Publishing&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-84774-062-5&rft.aulast=Khan&rft.aufirst=Muhammad+Mojlum&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-2s9BAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA309&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hundred-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hundred_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hundred_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rBFuAAAAMAAJ"><i>Hundred Years of Bangabhaban, 1905-2005</i></a>. Press Wing Bangabhaban. 2006. p. 20. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-984-32-1583-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-984-32-1583-3"><bdi>978-984-32-1583-3</bdi></a>. <q>It was at this time that a recently settled Muslim trading family of the city of Dhaka, originally from Kashmir, gave up trade and invested their wealth in buying land from the auctions. The founder of this Kashmiri Muslim family in Dhaka was Khwaja Alimullah.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hundred+Years+of+Bangabhaban%2C+1905-2005&rft.pages=20&rft.pub=Press+Wing+Bangabhaban&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-984-32-1583-3&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DrBFuAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dani1962-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Dani1962_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Dani1962_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDani1962" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Hasan_Dani" title="Ahmad Hasan Dani">Dani, Ahmad Hasan</a> (1962) [First published 1956]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ycBHAAAAMAAJ"><i>Dacca: A Record of Its Changing Fortunes</i></a> (2nd ed.). Mrs. Safiya S. Dani. p. 118. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/987755973">987755973</a>. <q>Khwaja Alimullah came forward ... his family rose to the premier position in Dacca. This family has no connection with the old Muslim rulers of this province. It takes its origin from the Kashmiri family of Khwaja Abdul Hakim, who migrated to Sylhet and started his business ... Khwaja Hakim's one brother, Maulvi Abdullah, moved to Dacca, and from him issued the present Dacca family. Khwaja Alimullah was his grandson, who purchased the French Factory in about 1838.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dacca%3A+A+Record+of+Its+Changing+Fortunes&rft.pages=118&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Mrs.+Safiya+S.+Dani&rft.date=1962&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F987755973&rft.aulast=Dani&rft.aufirst=Ahmad+Hasan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DycBHAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ahmed2018-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ahmed2018_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ahmed2018_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSharif_Uddin_Ahmed2018" class="citation book cs1">Sharif Uddin Ahmed (12 January 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ae1GDwAAQBAJ"><i>Dacca: A Study in Urban History and Development</i></a>. Routledge. p. 18. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-351-18673-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-351-18673-5"><bdi>978-1-351-18673-5</bdi></a>. <q>It was the Sunnis who from the early nineteenth century gradually came to dominate the Muslim community in Dhaka, and one of them, Khwaja Alimullah, a Kashmiri trader turned zamindar, became one of Dacca's most wealthy and influential citizens...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dacca%3A+A+Study+in+Urban+History+and+Development&rft.pages=18&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2018-01-12&rft.isbn=978-1-351-18673-5&rft.au=Sharif+Uddin+Ahmed&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dae1GDwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NewtonWagenhauser1996-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NewtonWagenhauser1996_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NewtonWagenhauser1996_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlex_NewtonBetsy_WagenhauserJon_Murray1996" class="citation book cs1">Alex Newton; Betsy Wagenhauser; Jon Murray (1996). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NQswAQAAIAAJ"><i>Bangladesh: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit</i></a>. Lonely Planet Publications. p. 113. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86442-296-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86442-296-5"><bdi>978-0-86442-296-5</bdi></a>. <q><a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Abdul_Ghani" title="Khwaja Abdul Ghani">Nawab Abdul Ghani Nawab Ghani</a>, born in 1830 of Kashmiri descent, was the most influential person in East Bengal in the last half of the 19th century.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bangladesh%3A+A+Lonely+Planet+Travel+Survival+Kit&rft.pages=113&rft.pub=Lonely+Planet+Publications&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-86442-296-5&rft.au=Alex+Newton&rft.au=Betsy+Wagenhauser&rft.au=Jon+Murray&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DNQswAQAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_10-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAkbar" class="citation web cs1">Akbar, M Ali. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Dhaka_Nawab_Estate">"Dhaka Nawab Estate"</a>. <i>Banglapedia</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Banglapedia&rft.atitle=Dhaka+Nawab+Estate&rft.aulast=Akbar&rft.aufirst=M+Ali&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fen.banglapedia.org%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DDhaka_Nawab_Estate&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Chatterji2002-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Chatterji2002_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChatterji,_Joya.1994" class="citation book cs1">Chatterji, Joya. (1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28710875"><i>Bengal divided : Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947</i></a>. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. p. 79. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-41128-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-41128-9"><bdi>0-521-41128-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/28710875">28710875</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bengal+divided+%3A+Hindu+communalism+and+partition%2C+1932-1947&rft.place=Cambridge+%5BEngland%5D&rft.pages=79&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1994&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F28710875&rft.isbn=0-521-41128-9&rft.au=Chatterji%2C+Joya.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Foclc%2F28710875&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANawab+of+Dhaka" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.weeklyholiday.net/2005/170605/env.html">Protection of heritage</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070103190222/http://www.weeklyholiday.net/2005/170605/env.html">Archived</a> 3 January 2007 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>: Judicial response in South Asia by Taslima Islam</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/inhemp/6app1.htm">"Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report - Note by Mr. G. 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