Under Mughal rule in the 17th century, Dhaka was known as - TopicsExpress



          

Under Mughal rule in the 17th century, Dhaka was known as Jahangir Nagar (named after the erstwhile emperor Jahangir ). It was the capital of Mughal Bengal and a centre of the worldwide muslin trade. The modern city, however, developed chiefly under British rule in the 19th-century. Between 1905 and 1911, it served as the capital of the short lived British province of Eastern Bengal and Assam . With the Partition of British India in 1947, the city became the administrative capital of East Pakistan, and in 1971, the capital of an independent Bangladesh.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:20:26 +0000

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