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District background

This Gaibandha district of ours is intertwined with the memories of Buddhist, Hindu, Mughal, Pathan period and English rule. Various struggles and revolts have taken place in this region during different regimes. The poison that Gaibandha was like in the beginning needs to be discussed first. The information obtained from various sources gives some ideas in this regard. The mainland of Gaibandha district was at the bottom of the river and over time it was filled with riverine silt and a strong earthquake in the area caused the river bed to rise and turn into land. Today's Gaibandha is made up of silt carried by the rivers Teesta, Brahmaputra and Jamuna.
Gaibandha Naming Context: Exact information about the exact location of Gaibandha naming of the current location of the district town has not been found yet. However, the report prepared by the Collector of Rangpur, Easy, Glazier in 183, says that the name Gaibandha is written in English as N.O.Aghua and the location of that N.A.Aghua is mentioned as Ghaghat Par. It can be said that this ghat is the Ghaghat river. Before Mr. Glazier of Rangpur, James Rennell was the Collector. According to his Rennell Journals, the Punbhav, Dharla, Teesta, Manas and Ghaghat canals in North Bengal in 1893 were conducive to shipping. It has been written that huge boats used to ply in Ghaghat canal in the month of January. Ghaghat, however, is mentioned as a canal in the reports of two collectors, James Rennell and Easy Glacier. From this it is understood that Ghaghat river was mentioned as a canal in 1893 as it was smaller than the rivers of that time. Another thing that can be said from this information is that in 1893 there was also Manas river. Ghaghat is like a river. Another thing that can be deduced from these two facts is that the name Gaibandha was not significant in 1893. In 183, Easy Glacier mentioned the name Gaibandha in his report. Probably before 1793, this place on the banks of the river Ghaghat was used as a fallow land and grazing land. The name Gaibandha was not mentioned before 183 in the report of the collectors of Rangpur as there was no settlement.
There are two legends about the naming of Gaibandha. One legend says that five thousand years ago, the capital of King Virat of the fishing country was in the Gobindagaj Thana area of ​​Gaibandha. The story of the Mahabharata is that this king lived in the royal court of Virat for five years after his 12-year exile in disguise including Draupadi of Panch Pandava. In the unknown Baskale, Yudhisthira became the companion of the great king's dice game called Kang. And Bhim's job was to cook and his pseudonym was Vallabh. The princess is the daughter of a great king. Arjun took the responsibility of teaching Uttam's dance, song and musical instruments under the pseudonym Brihanla. Sahadeva Tantipala was in charge of the cowshed and Nakul was in charge of the horse stable, his pseudonym was Granthik. And Rupadi named Saurindri was the housewife of Queen Sudeshna of the great king. It is said that the wealth of this great king was unmatched. The number of his cows was sixty thousand. Sometimes robbers would come and loot the cows of the great king. For that, the great king set up a cowshed in a huge desert. To ensure safe and secure food and water supply to the cows. It is placed on grassy land along the river. The cows were tied at that particular place. According to the legend, from the place where this cow was tied, the name of the area became Gaibandha according to the spoken language of the region and in time it came to be known as Gaibandha.