Bardwan house

Bardwan House is one of the most historical buildings. It was build in 1906. In diarchy century bardwan’s great king used to live here. People used to thing that 1921-24 the building was two stairs and behind the building it was stuff’s recidential place. Up to 1947 it was used as a chief officers guest house.
History
Barring a few residential townships that benefited mainly the rich, the DIT did not prepare any zonal or local plan or tried to develop the city according to any other plan. Different establishments such as the Hotel, Hospital, institututions, court building, police, memorials, religious buildings, etc. appropriated a good part of the ramna garden and the race course much to the protests and dismay of professional, media and environmentalists, and by violating the provisions of the master plan. These are situated on land mostly owned by the Nawabs from whom the British took it to establish Ramna much of which was latter given to the D U.
Architectural value
The IEB complex that is now building a multistoried structure within the park area appropriated the land cunningly; the government engineers who were maintaining government properties just took it over in the name of their assoiatio, and had their contractors quickly build a building for them free of charge. In 2007-08, there were attempts to appropriate parts of sohrawardi Udyan and osmani Udyan , however, protests from environmental activists and concerned citizens eventually prevented that from happening .
The bangle Academy which thought of having a 21 -storied Ekushey bhaban is also planning an extension of some functions into the udyan, possibly a small ‘ Language Museum ‘ . Currently when we go around the place by the fences of the Sohrawardi Udyan, we will see several strange structures of several shape and sizes are under construction: One looks like a memorial near the spot where there was a historic structure till the 1971. I also hear that the Dhaka University is contemplating claiming back some of its land in and around Ramna if it can find proper documents supporting that.
The Academy compound now contains the Barwan House, one of the three buildings built for the three members of the Executive Council of the Province in the area. This one was for the Rajah of Bardwan, one was burnt down in late 1960s, and the other for Nawab Shamsul Huda is within a ladies hall of the Dhaka University. The Raja established the Siva Temple behind this. Later many famous people, including.
University Professors and Poet Nazrul had stayed in this building. After 1947, it was the official residence of the Chief Minister of East Bengal. For sometime before Salimullah Hall was built, some students were accommodated in this building too, along with in other bungalows in the area.
Many people are familiar with this historical building , and visit the grounds at least once in February of each year to the Ekushey Boi mela . The three storied box -like building has east faceing porch , and semi-circular raised platforms on other sides . to its west is the famous pond which has resized to accommodate more stalls during the mela. but now it is filled up to construct a new multi - storey building. In the early 1980,Bardawn Househeld the first stage of a cultural troupe.
Bibliography, Institute of Archeology retrieve on 16/4/2011.
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