Fort and palace, Mymensingh
Atharobari Zamindar Bariআঠারবাড়ী জমিদার বাড়ি
- Time needed
- About 30 minutes.
- best months
- Nov–Feb
The zamindars' house that gave Atharobari, "eighteen houses", its name, where Tagore was entertained in 1926.
At a glance
- Founder
- Dwip Roy Chowdhury, from Jessore
- Tagore visited
- 19 February 1926
About
Dwip Roy Chowdhury, a zamindar from Jessore, bought this estate at what was then Shibganj in Ishwarganj and brought eighteen Hindu families with him to work the household, building a house for each. The village has been Atharobari, "eighteen houses", ever since. His son Shambhu Roy Chowdhury had no son and raised a Brahmin boy, Pramod Roy, who became the next zamindar.
On 19 February 1926, at the end of his Mymensingh visit, Rabindranath Tagore came to the Atharobari Rajbari at Pramod Roy Chowdhury's invitation, and was given lunch, songs, a play and entertainment. Things from the palace, a rhinoceros hide and a marble-topped table, are now in the Mymensingh Museum.
Getting there: In Atharobari village, Ishwarganj upazila, east of Mymensingh.
Things to do
- Walk round the old house and the village that grew around it.
Good to know
- Atharobari has its own railway station on the Mymensingh line.
