Tourist Attraction Baliati Zamindari, Manikgonj

Tourist Attraction Baliati Zamindari, Manikgonj

Baliati Zamindari, Manikgonj

Baliati Zamindar Bari is in the village of Baliati, in Saturia Upazila in Manikganj District, Bangladesh. It's the  mansion of the Zamindars, the Baliati Zamindari who  governed over a large area.

What is the history of the Baliati Zamindari?

 Gobinda Ram Shaha was the  pioneer of the zamindari at Baliati. He was a salt dealer. He inherited the business from his parent,  also he extended that business further and established the zamindari. The zamindari extended to Narayanganj District.

What is the  infrastructure of Baliati Zamindari?

There are seven palaces. The palace area occupies around5.88 acres( 23,800 m2) of land, enclosed within a culvert and a border wall. There are about 200 apartments inside the  yard. At the  reverse of the Palace is a pond( dighi). 

How some parts of Baliati Zamindari  wiped out?

At the end of the 18th century, Zamindar Harendra Kumar Roy Chowdhury officially  vended some  corridor of the Zamindari of Narayanganj to Sreemoti Alladi BiBi who was the  proprietor of Talluk and her hubby Zamindar Rahim Bakhsh Haji. The palaces have been allocated by the Bangladesh archeological department since 1987. And it's said that after separation in 1947, all the  forefathers left for India.