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Fort and palaceMd. Sarwar Ul Islam Fakir · CC BY-SA 4.0

Tarash Bhaban

Pabna

The town house of the Tarash zamindars in the middle of Pabna, a two-storey building with a tall columned portico facing the road.

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Shamsher Gazi's fort and dighi

Feni

The earthwork fort, tank and tunnel mouth at Jagannath Sonapur and Champaknagar in Chhagalnaiya, where Shamsher Gazi, the peasant rebel who took Roshnabad and Tripura in 1748, had his seat until his death in 1760.

Fort and palaceMahbubPathan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Rupsha Zamindar Bari

Chandpur

A 250-year-old Muslim zamindar estate at Rupsha in Faridganj: a gateway, the main two-storey house, outbuildings, a mosque and the family graveyard, still partly lived in.

Fort and palaceSanjayBeen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Alexandra Castle

Mymensingh

The maharaja's iron-framed garden house, called Lohar Kuthi, where Tagore stayed four days in 1926.

Fort and palaceBhoboghure · CC BY 4.0

Atharobari Zamindar Bari

Mymensingh

The zamindars' house that gave Atharobari, "eighteen houses", its name, where Tagore was entertained in 1926.

Fort and palaceTopumym · CC BY-SA 4.0

Muktagachha Rajbari

Mymensingh

The Aat Ani palace of the Muktagachha zamindars, behind a great gate, once home to the first revolving stage in Asia outside Kolkata.

Fort and palaceNajmul Huda · CC BY-SA 4.0

Shashi Lodge

Mymensingh

The Muktagachha maharajas' palace in the heart of Mymensingh, rebuilt after the 1897 earthquake and known as the town's Rajbari.

Fort and palaceMasum-al-hasan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Amjhupi Nilkuthi

Meherpur

A restored indigo planters' house on the Kajla river, about 6 km east of Meherpur town, later an East India Company office: lawns, mango trees and a reminder of the indigo years.

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Ulpur Zamindar Bari

Gopalganj

The remains of a large Hindu zamindar estate at Ulpur in Gopalganj Sadar, now under the Department of Archaeology.

Fort and palaceMahbubPathan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dalal Bazar Zamindar Bari

Lakshmipur

A 400-year-old zamindar estate on five acres at Dalal Bazar, 7 km from the town: the arched gateway, the two-storey rajbari, a mandap, the Khoa Sagar tank beside it and the family temple, all still standing.

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Kamankhola Zamindar Bari

Lakshmipur

The house of the Das zamindars at Kamankhola near the town, whose estate was in Raipur: a decaying two-storey building with a temple and tank, named for the cannon (kaman) once kept there.

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Narail Zamindar Bari

Narail

The house of the Narail zamindars, whose estate began in 1791 under Rupram Ray as a holding of Rani Bhabani of Natore and became independent under his son Kali Shankar Ray.

Fort and palaceANKAN · CC BY-SA 4.0

Lakutia Zamindar Bari

Barishal

The weathered mansion of the Roy zamindars at Lakutia, just north of the city, the family of the First World War pilot Indra Lal Roy.

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Lalbagh Fort

Dhaka

An unfinished Mughal fort of the 1670s by the Buriganga, with a mosque, an audience hall and the tomb of Pari Bibi in walled gardens: the best-known old monument in Dhaka.

Fort and palaceMuntasir du · Public domain

Rose Garden Palace

Dhaka

A white colonnaded mansion of the 1930s in Tikatuli with a garden, statues and a pond, where the Awami League was founded in 1949.

Fort and palaceMofrad Hossain Alindo · CC BY-SA 4.0

Chanchra Rajbari

Jashore

The old zamindar house of Chanchra on the edge of Jashore town, from the 18th or 19th century, with temples built by the family; now in poor repair.

Fort and palaceNasir Khan Saikat · CC BY-SA 3.0

Dinajpur Rajbari

Dinajpur

The ruined palace of the Dinajpur rajas on the north-east edge of the town: gateways, crumbling mahals and temples of the family that built Kantajew and Ramsagar.

Fort and palaceNasir8891 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Idrakpur Fort

Munshiganj

The largest of the three Mughal river forts around Dhaka, built around 1660 in Munshiganj town on what was then the bank of the Ichhamati.

Fort and palaceNahid Sultan · CC BY-SA 3.0

Baliati Palace

Manikganj

The 19th-century estate of the Baliati zamindars in Saturia: seven buildings behind a long colonnaded front, a big pond and an inner court.

Fort and palaceMdiht · CC BY-SA 4.0

Teota Zamindar Bari

Manikganj

A crumbling zamindar estate in Shibalaya near the Jamuna, with mansions round a court, a bathing ghat and a Nabaratna temple.

Fort and palaceBhoboghure · CC BY 4.0

Chhandra Zamindar Bari

Magura

The ruins of the Chhandra zamindars' house in Shalikha, from where this area's rent was collected and the land governed, reached by van from Simakhali bazar.

Fort and palaceMd Shehab Hossan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Raja Sitaram Ray's Palace-Fort

Magura

The ruined capital of the zamindar who defied the Mughals, at Mohammadpur: palace, Shiva temple, the Dashabhuja temple site and a tank lined with brick to its floor.

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Sreepur Zamindar Bari

Magura

The Pal Chowdhury zamindars' house in Sreepur, tied to the story Tagore told in Bou-Thakuranir Haat; its lion gate and some inner rooms still stand.

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Balapur Zamindar Bari

Narsingdi

The crumbling estate of the Saha zamindars in Balapur village, Narsingdi Sadar: one-, two- and three-storey buildings, a large pond with separate ghats, a temple and a Durga Puja pavilion.