Pandua Cillakana Majar || Alauddin Ali Shah Cillakhana || Famous Dargah in West Bengal

panduya || Pandua Dargah Sharif Malda II Famous Dargah in West Bengal #Malda
   • panduya || Pandua Dargah Sharif Malda...  



Though Muslim-dominated Malda in West Bengal today is known for poverty, illiteracy and backwardness, the city has remained capital of kingdoms – first of Hindu rulers and then Muslims – over several centuries. While grand old official buildings of the ruling class and crumbled great mosques and minarets remind one of the historic significance of the district, some clusters of mazars and graves of early preachers of Islam tell something about the advent of Islam in that part of the world.

There are two famous clusters of mazars in Pandua area of Malda district. In 1338 AD Haji Ilyas Shah, a ruler, brought the whole Bengal under his rule and made Pandua – the ancient Hindu city 20 miles northeast of Lakhnauti – the capital of Bengal. Before that, Lakhnauti or Gaur was the capital over centuries.

Some time in 12th century, during the regime of King Lakhan Sen of Bengal, Iranian emperor Tabrez’ son Syed Shah Jalaluddin Tabrezi was sent to Eastern India for the propagation of Islam. He came to Pandua and made this place his centre and began preaching Islam in entire Eastern India from here.

Muslim rule expanded to this part of eastern India following the third wave of successful invasion by Muhammad Shahabuddin Ghauri. This took place between 1191 AD and 1255 AD.

In 1202 AD when Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji, the lieutenant of Qutbuddin Aibak, then ruler of Delhi, took his army to Bengal. The capital city surrendered to him as the King of Bengal Lakhan Sen abandoned his capital Gaur.

According to the book “Memoirs of Gaur and Pandua” (by M. Abid Ali Khan and H. E. Stapleton), “Gaur, under the names of Ramavati and Lakshmanavati, was probably one of the royal capitals of the Pal and Sen Kings, but its recorded history does not begin until the Muhammadan conquest of western and Northern Bengal (Rarh and Varendra) by Muhammad-I-Bakhtiyar Khalji, the lieutenant of Qutbuddin Aibak of Delhi, in the year 599 of the Hijra, corresponding with 1202 A.D. Rai Lakshman Sen (better known as Lakhan Sen) who had renamed Gaur Lakshmanavati after his own name, was then King of Bengal, and Muhammad-I-Bakhtiyar, advancing rapidly by the south easterly road from Bihar, surprised him in his capital of Nadia on the Bhagirathi river (now represented by Nabadwip, a little to the west of Krishnagar).”

The author further says that Muhammad Bakhtiyar then caused the Khutbah to read, and coins struck in the name of Qutbuddin Aibak, the ruler in Delhi. After the conquest of Bengal, Muhammad Bakhtiyar established mosques, colleges and rest houses for dervishes in that province and made Lakhnauti the seat of his government.

Follow me on
INSTAGRAM ► https://instagram.com/ishaque_fisheri...
FACEBOOK ► https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q...
Email ► [email protected]



Main Camera:- SONY CyberShot DSC-HX90V
https://www.flipkart.com/sony-cybersh...
Action Camera:- Flipkart SmartBuy D68AV Dual Screens Real 4K
https://www.flipkart.com/flipkart-sma...
Laptop:-Asus X553MA
https://www.flipkart.com/asus-x553ma-...
Mobile:-Infinix Note 10 Pro
https://www.flipkart.com/infinix-note...

Memory Cards & HDD ————————————
Action & Main camera Memory Card
64 GB:- SanDisk Ultra 64 MicroSDXC Class 10 120 Mbps Memory Card
https://www.flipkart.com/sandisk-ultr...
16 GB:-SanDisk 533X 16 GB Ultra SDHC Class 10 80 MB/s Memory Card
https://www.flipkart.com/sandisk-533x...
Music by : Osman Murat Tuğsuz
Ney ( sufi flute ) : Hüseyin Özkılıç