HAZARDUARI PALACE & MUSEUM
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- The Hazarduari Palace, or the palace with a thousand doors is the chief tourist attraction of Murshidabad. This three-storey palace was built in 1837 by Duncan McLeod for the Nawab Najim Humaun Jah, descendent of Mir Zafar. The museum in the palace has an exquisite collection of armoury, splendid paintings, exhaustive portraits of the Nawabs, various works of art.
MADINA MOSQUE
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- The Madina Mosque is a mosque in the Nizamat Fort Campus in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. There are two Madina mosques in the fort campus, the old one built by Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah during the 18th century.and the new one by Nawab Mansur Ali Khan in 1847.The old mosque lies on the west of the clock tower and just beside the Bacchawali Tope.
THE BACHCHAWALI TOPE
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- Bacchawali Tope (literal translation: The cannon which induces child birth) is a great cannon. It lies in the Nizamat Fort Campus on the garden space between the Nizamat Imambara and the Hazarduari Palace.The Bachchawali Tope (canon) was made between the 12th and the 14th century, probably by the Mohammedan rulers of Gour, and requires about 18 Kg of gun powder for a single shelling.
IMAMBARA
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- The Nizamat Imambara (Bengali: নিজামত ইমামবাড়া) is a Shia Muslim congregation hall (imambara) in Murshidabad, India. It was built in 1740 AD by Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah and rebuilt in 1847 by Nawab Mansur Ali Khan after it was destroyed by the fires of 1842 and 1846. It is frequently mentioned as the largest imambara in the world
WASEF MANZIL
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- Wasif Manzil (also known as Wasef Manzil and New Palace) was built by Nawab Wasif Ali Mirza Khan under the direction and supervision of Mr. Vivian, officer of the Public Works Department of the Nadia Rivers Division and Surendra Barat, a Bengali engineer. This building is built on the Nizamat Fort Campus between the campus's Dakshin Darwaza (south gate) and the Hazarduari Palace.
MOTIJHEEL
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- Motijheel, literal translation: Pearl Lake, is a horse-shoe shaped lake in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. It was created by Nawazish Muhammad Khan, the son-in-law of Nawab Alivardi Khan. He also constructed a precious palatial palace beside this lake which is called the Sang-i- dalan which is also known as the Motijhil Palace.It was used as the residence of Nawazish and Ghaseti Begum, Nawazish's beloved wife
KATRA MOSQUE
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- The Katra Masjid is a mosque and the tomb of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan. It was built during the 18th century, when the early modern Bengal Subah was a major hub of trade in Eurasia. The Katra Masjid is located in the north eastern side of the city of Murshidabad, in the Indian state of West Bengal. The most striking feature of the structure are the two large corner towers having loopholes for musketry.
JAHANKOSHA CANON
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- The cannon was made in 1637 by Janardan Karmakar, a blacksmith and gunsmith, under the instructions of Daroga Shere Mohammad and under the supervision of Hara Ballav Das. The cannon was made in Dacca, when Shah Jahan was the Mughal emperor, at the instance of Islam Khan, who was the Subedar of Bengal. However, the cannon has several other names like the "Great Gun", the "Destroyer of the world", and so on.
KATHGOLA BAGANBARI
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- Kathgola Palace is a four-storeyed palatial palace in the Kathgola Gardens. It has an ornamented facade with paintings, mirrors and furniture.Beside the palace is a small pond and a baoli. There is one temple named Adinath Temple also known as Paresh Nath Temple or Kathgola Temple is situated in the Kathgola Gardens. It is a temple dedicated to Bhagawan Adishvar
NASIPUR RAJBARI
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- Nashipur Rajbari of the Nashipur Raj Family is situated in Nashipur, Murshidabad, West Bengal. It was the court of the Debi Singha, who is historically renowned for being the tax collector during the British Raj.He was known for being strict against those who failed to pay taxes on time to him. Soon He became the head of the department. Debi Singha was also the founder of the Nashipur Raj Family.
JAGAT SETH'S HOUSE
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- The Jagat Seth were a Bengali Jain banking family and the title of the eldest son of the family. The family sometimes referred to as the House of Jagat Seth. The house was founded by Jain Hiranand Shah from Rajasthan in 1652. House of Jagat Seth Museum was established in 1980. It contains personal possessions of the Jagat Seth family including coins of the bygone era, muslin and extravagant clothes embroidered with gold and silver threads.
KHOSHBAGH
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- Khoshbagh (literally "Garden of Happiness") is the garden-cemetery of the Nawabs of Bengal, situated on the west bank of the Bhagirathi river, about a mile from its east bank, in the Murshidabad District Of West Bengal. The garden-cemetery was built by the first Nawab of Bengal, Nawab Alivardi Khan.Khoshbagh is the resting place of Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah, his wife Lutf-un-nisa, Nawab Alivardi Khan, and his mother.
TOMB OF AZIMUNISSA BEGUM
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- Azimunissa Begum (also known as Zinatunissa Begum) was daughter of Murshid Quli Khan and wife of the second Nawab of Bengal, Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan. A mosque was built at the place in 1734 by her, but it was partly washed away by a river and only a small part of it remains. The place has well laid out gardens. People believe that she used to eat the hearts of children in order to get cured from a disease. When her husband Suja Khan came to know about it he buried her alive at this place. However some scholars totally disagree from this story stating that Azimunnisa Begum was just sent away from Murshidabad as a punishment and later on when she died she was buried here. Now apart from her grave one can see a beautiful garden on top of the grave and the remains of a mosque.
COSSIMBAZAR THE PALACE OF THE NANDIS
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- Krishna Kanta Nandi (popularly known as Kanta Mudi) provided shelter to Hastings, when he was chased by Siraj ud-Daulah’s men.After turning victorious in the Battle of Plassey, Hasting returned his favour by appointing Krishna Kanta Nandi as his agent. Krishna Kanta Nandi made a huge mansion in Cossimbazar and the interiors were decorated with pillars and arches removed from Chait Singh’s palace in Varanasi.The Palace of the Nandis is popularly known as Boro Rajbari in Cossimbazar.
COSSIMBAZAR THE PALACE OF THE ROYS
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- Way back in time, when Murshidabad was the capital of the Nawabs of Bengal, Cossimbazar was a flourishing port on the Ganga So it was here —around 1700 — that Ajodhya Ram Roy of Pirojpur village decided to settle down with his family. Later the British government conferred the title of ‘Rai Bahadur’ to Annada Prosad Roy from this family. Later the title "Raja" was conferred upon his son Ashutosh Nath Roy. Meanwhile, the palace was also rebuilt.
CHAR BANGLA TEMPLE
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- Char Bangla Temples, are located at Baranagar in the Murshidabad-Jiaganj CD block in the Lalbag subdivision of Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.The temples were built by Rani Bhabani of Natore. The temples are famous for their exquisite decorations based on either mythology or daily life. David J. McCutchion mentions the Char Bangla Temples with triple entrance at Baranagar as ek-bangla temples which is hardly found in West Bengal.