Exploring the Architectural Excellence of the Ruins of Gour, West Bengal, India
This video composition is based on our (Mohammed & Naseem Salikuddin) recent trip to Gaur, West Bengal, India in March 4, 2018 Exploring the Architectural Excellence of the Ruins of Gour. The music used in this presentation was performed in Atlanta, Georgia in January 1, 1983 by a group of our fiends (Akhmal Haq on Sitar, Amitabh Sen on Violin and Rafi Akbarzada on Tabla).
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Gaur or Gour Rajputs are one of the 36 major clans of Rajputs in India. Gaurs are of Suryavanshi lineage, claiming descent from Surya, the Hindu Sun-god or in English it is known as Solar Dynasty. As per Valmiki Ramayana’s Uttar kand, Lord Ram’s younger brother Bharat established the vansh. Upon division of the kingdom, he established the kingdom of Gandharv which later got distorted to Gaur.
Akshay Kumar Maitreya, a contemporary and close collaborator of Rabindranath Tagore, in his Gaurer Katha (The story of Gaur) said “The whole of Gaur was once known as Gaura Desh.” The book, Gaur — The Medieval city of Bengal (c. 1450-1565), a special issue of Pratna Samiksha — a Journal of Archaeology by Centre for Archaeological Studies &Training, Eastern India, gives us an opportunity to explore the history in the ruins of Gaur. Once again it proves that history lies in the field. Traces of recorded history of the origins of Gaur Rajputs can be found in old texts of the British raj referring to the Pala Dynasty as Gaur Rajputs. The Pala dynasty ruled present Bengal and Bangladesh, later extending to other parts of north India, central India and Pakistan from the 8th century to 11th century AD. After the rule of the Palas, the Sen Dynasty established sole control over entire Bengal. Two famous rulers of the Sen Dynasty were Ballal Sen (1159-1179 AD) and Lakshman Sen (1179-1206 AD). Lakshman Sen expanded the Sena Empire to Assam, Odisha, Bihar and Varanasi. The capital of this Guar kingdom was Laknuati or Lakshmanvati. In 1203–1204 AD, the Turkic military general of Qutb-ud-din Aybak, Bakhtiyar Khilji suppressed Lakshman Sen thus capturing Northwest Bengal, although Eastern Bengal remained under Sena king’s control.
The Gaurs relocated to Central and Northern India. (Present day Uttar Pradesh, Himachal and Rajasthan). One would find that some princely states in Himachal still use ‘Sen’ in their name, hence establishing semblance with the Sen Dynasty.
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Top 10 Best Ruins to visit in India
These are tge Best Places to visit ancient or medieval Ruins in India. These are best to see for the lovers of the Ruins and Archaelogical sites in India. The Ruins or Archaeological site are
Hampi
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Lakhnauti- Ruins of Gaur, Gauda near Malda West Bengal
Nalanda
Vikramshila
Puphagiri or Puspagiri
Maluti Temples
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EXACT ADDRESS:26ShIv Mandir,Ram hari biswas ghat road,Shibbati para,Bose Para, Khardah ,WB 700116.
On the banks of river Ganga at Khardaha are a set of 26 Shiva temples. Nityananda Prabhu, came in boat and settled in hut here and the structure is known as Kunjabati which is visted by tourists. Group of 26 temples built in similar manner as that of Puri with one lakh Shivalinga. It was constructed in the early 19th century by Ramhari Biswas and his son Prankrishna. The door frames are decorative from the Gaur ruins. All of these temples are situated on the bank of the sacred river Ganga, and are arranged in two groups five facing Ganga and rest 21 arranged as a rectangle. On the front cover brick temples have stucco work and cut-brick terracotta with two vertical rows of small bricks are built. Besides these, Khardah has several other temples like Annapurna temple, Panchanan temple etc. Khardah is a small town about 25 km from Kolkata and easily accessible by road and railway both.
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Gour also known as lakhnauti, is a ruined city on the Bangladesh India border, split between present day Nawabganj DIstrict of Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh and Malda district of West Bengal ,India. This city was on the east bank of the Gangas river, 40 kilometres downstream from Rajmahal, 12 km south of Malda.
Tourist Destination ( Historical places). 1. Borosona mosque. 2. Selami Darwaja 3. Firoj moner 3. Baise Gaji wall 5. Balllal bati 6. Lukochuri Darwaja 7. Madam rasul mosque 8. China mosque 9. Gumti Darwaja
Adina Masjid (Mosque), Malda, West Bengal, India
Adina Masjid is the largest mosque to be built in Bengal. Sultan Sikandar Shah built Adina Mosque in 1373.Sultan Shah was the second sultan of the Ilyas dynasty. Adina mosque is one of the largest mosques to be built in the subcontinent and the only hypostyle mosque in Bengal. Adina is located twenty kilometres North of the town of Malda and along a major road leading to north Bengal, the 34 NH. Probably the sultan built Adina Masjid as a visual proclamation of his victory over the Delhi ruler, Firuz Shah Tughluq. The mosque is mostly in ruins today following the damages sustained during the earthquakes in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The plan of Adina Masjid was similar to the Great Mosque of Damascus. It is a rectangular, hypostyle structure, with an open central courtyard. It's a great structure measuring externally 154.3 x 87m north-south. The courtyard measures 130 x 45m. The prayer hall is located to the west, and is divided into two symmetrical wings by a central nave. The prayer hall is five aisles deep, while the north, south and east cloisters around the courtyard consist of triple aisles. In total, these aisles had 260 pillars and 387 domed bays. The interior of the courtyard is a continuous façade of 92 arches surmounted by a parapet, beyond which the domes of the bays can be seen.
Gour Malda ( A historical place ) my 1st Vlog
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botanical garden
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coffee house
college street
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chandni chowk
coochbehar raj bari
chika mosque
charminar
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chhatimtala
changu lake
chhoti patan devi temple
dakshineswar ramkrishna sangha adyapeath
dakhil darwaza
darjeeling
delhi airport metro express
duronto
dungeshwari cave
eden gardens
eklakhi mausoleum
fort william
firoz minar tomb
funtasia water park
gandhi sangrahalaya, patna
ganges
gangasagar
gosanimari rajpat
gaya
gangtok
griddhakuta peak
humayun's tomb
howrah bridge
howrah
hieun tsang memorial hall
indian
india gate
jalan museum
jantar mantar
jorasanko
jalpaiguri rajbari
jorasanko thakurbari
jal mandir
janki temple
jagannath temple
japanese buddhist temple
jalmandir
jubba sahni park
kolkata zoo & zoological garden
kumortuli
kadam rasul mosque
konark sun temple
konark
kalimpong
kurseong
kesaria stupa
kagyupa international monlam trust
kanwar lake bird sanctuary
lake town clock tower
lachung
lattan mosque
marble palace kolkata
mother house
maidan
mukutmanipur dam
munger
mumbai
mirik
munger fort
mahatma gandhi setu
mahabodhi temple
mangla gauri temple
namchi
national park
najrul tirtha
nathang valley
national library
nandankanan
nakhoda mosque
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national library
netaji bhawan
netaji indoor stadium
nalanda archaeological museum
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nalanda
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patna
princep ghat
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pelling
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qutub minar
qutb shahi mosque
raj bhawan
rabindra sarovar
rajgir
rohtas fort
royal bhutan temple
rajdhani
railways
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red fort
ravangla
sher shah suri tomb
sun temple
second hooghly bridge
seek blessing of shah daulat at choti dargah
south city mall
science city
shaheed minar
sasaram
son bhandar
sagardighi
shobhabajar rajbar
sealdah
st. paul's cathedral church
siliguri
srikrishna science centre
sikkim
susunia hills
sanjay gandhi jaivik udyan
statue of mahatma gandhi
taj mahal
tiger hill
tomb of sher shah suri
tagore house
tantipara mosque
the great buddha statue
town hall
thai monastery
tagore's ashram
victoria memorial hall
victoria memorial
victoria garden
visva bharati university
vaishali
venu van
vishwa shanti stupa
vikramshila ruins
wat thai buddhagaya
birla temple
belur math
baps shri swaminarayan mandir
bharat sevashram sangha temple
bharat sevashram sangha
chandrodaya temple
dakshineswar kali temple
gaya
hangseswari temple
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jal mandir
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jor bangla
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shyama raya temple
sai baba temple
tarakeshwar temple
tarapith hotel,
tarapith train,
tarapith,
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tara ma,
tarapith aarti,
tarapith mandir,
joy tara,
tarapith temple,
akshardham temple
amarnath cave temple
brihadeeswara temple
badrinath temple
dwarkadhish temple
gangotri temple
gomateshwara temple
golden temple
konark sun temple
kedarnath temple
kanchipuram temples
khajuraho temple
kashi vishwanath temple
lingaraja temple
laxminarayan temple
lord jagannath temple
meenakshi temple
padmanabhaswamy temple
ranakpur temple
somnath temple
sanchi stupa
shirdi sai baba temple
siddhivinayak temple
tirupati balaji
virupaksha temple
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Adina Masjid/Adina Mosque/Pandua Tourist Places/Malda Tourist Places
Adina Masjid/Adina Mosque/Pandua Tourist Places/Malda Tourist Places
The Adina Mosque (Bengali: আদিনা মসজিদ) is the ruins of the largest mosque in the Indian subcontinent, located in the Indian state of West Bengal near the border with Bangladesh. The site, dating from the 14th century, hosted the imperial mosque of the Sultanate of Bengal.
The design of the mosque incorporated Bengali, Arab, Persian and Byzantine architecture. It was built with brick and stone. Its plan is similar to the Great Mosque of Damascus. It had a rectangular hyspostyle structure with an open courtyard. There were several hundred domes. The structure measured 172 by 97 m. The entire western wall evokes the imperial style of pre-Islamic Sasanian Persia. The mosque's most prominent feature is its monumental ribbed barrel vault over the central nave, the first such huge vault built in the subcontinent, and another feature shared in common with the Sasanian style. The mosque consciously imitated Persianate imperial grandeur. The prayer hall is five aisles deep, while the north, south and east cloisters around the courtyard consist of triple aisles. In total, these aisles had 260 pillars and 387 domed bays. The interior of the courtyard is a continuous façade of 92 arches surmounted by a parapet, beyond which the domes of the bays can be seen. The interior elevated platform, which was the gallery of the Sultan and his officials, still exists. The Sultan's tomb chamber is attached with the western wall.
The mosque was built during the reign of Sikandar Shah, the second Sultan of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty of the Bengal Sultanate. The mosque was designed to display the kingdom's imperial ambitions after its two victories against the Delhi Sultanate in the 14th century.[5] The mosque may have been constructed on the ruins of Hindu-Buddhist temples and monasteries as its exterior wall contains defaced Indian sculptures. According to Encyclopedia Iranica, the mosque's construction material included stone from Bengali temples.
Inscriptions on the mosque proclaimed Sikandar Shah as the exalted Sultan and the Caliph of the faithful. The Sultan was buried in a tomb chamber attached to the wall facing the direction of Mecca. The mosque was located in the now ruined city of Pandua, a former capital of the Bengal Sultanate.
It fell into ruin during the period of British rule and was damaged by earthquakes in the 19th century.
On 3 December 1932 AD, Jitu Santhal, the leader of an anti-landlord movement in North Bengal had engaged in his last combat at the ruins of the Adina mosque. A largeband of Santhals, who had recently converted to Hinduism, marched up to the historic city of Pandua, occupied the ruins of Adina, and conducted a debased form of Hindu worship in order to transform the mosque into a temple. Jitu, who now called himself Gandhi, declared the end of British Raj and proclaimed his own government from within the mosque. Eventually, Jitu was killed in the vicinity of the mosque after a battle with armed police, who opened fire after the Santhals refused to come out.
The site is located in Pandua, just 18 kms from Malda Town.
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Malda district (Bengali: মালদা জেলা)is a district in West Bengal, India.
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The site contains ruins of ancient city of Kamtapur, capital of Kamata kingdom, occupying a large area of ancient Kamarupa and Banga.
Gosanimari is both a village and an archaeological site in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, north-eastern India. The name of this site was taken from the modern grampanchyat name of the Dinhata subdivision.
It is believed parts of the ancient kingdoms important temples and buildings are now buried under a large grass grown mound. So far two large stone wells have been excavated, along with a large stone walls and a number of idols too. Pottery work includes vases, bowls, basin, dish, beaker etc. The facial and physiognomical delineation indicate the idols are the products of c. 11th and 12th century AD and influenced by Pala-Sena school of art.The Kingdom of Kamata was between the 11-12th Century A.D. by the dynasties of Pala & Sena. Then after by the Khen dynasty in the 14th century AD until 1498 AD. Then the King Nilambar was defeated by the Sultan Hussein Shah of Gaud, who had it ruled by the Koch dynasty from early on in the 16th Century.
When the English came along they Anglicized the term Koch to Cooch, hence the name Cooch BeharState.
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Gauḍa, Gaur, or Gour, also known as Lakhnauti, is a ruined city on the Indo-Bangladesh border, most of the former citadel is located in the present-day Malda district of West Bengal, India, while a smaller part is located in Nawabganj District of Bangladesh. This city was on the east bank of the Ganges river, 40 kilometres (25 mi) downstream from Rajmahal, 12 km south of Malda. However, the current course of the Ganges is far away from the ruins.
Lakhnauti gathered prominence during the Sena dynasty, with the name of the city, often attributed to the Sena king Lakshman Sena. Prior to the accession of the Sena dynasty, Gauda region was under the control of the Pala dynasty and, in all probability, Karnasuvarna, the capital of Shashanka, served as the administrative headquarter. For example, the Khalimpur copperplate inscription of Dharmapal, refers to the monarch as Gaudeshwar (lord of Gauda). It is possible that, the Sena dynasty, that supplanted the Pala dynasty in Bengal proper (and to Gauda region) felt the need for a new administrative capital, to reduce the Pala influence. It is possible that the process might have been started by Vijay or Ballal Sena – but given the final shape by Lakshmana Sena. In fact Lakshmanasena had the administrative capital at Lakhnauti while a lesser capital (more likely a retreat in his later days) at Nadia. It was in the later capital, possibly less defended, that he was surprised by Ikhtiyar-ud-din Mohammad ibn Bakhtiyar Khalji.
The area was known as Gauḍa (ablaut of Sanskrit guḍa, meaning sweet or molasses or root) at the time was under the rule of famous Bengali kings such as Shashanka. In the 7th century Gopala by a democratic election in Gauḍa became the first independent Buddhist king of Bengal and founded the Pala Empire. The Pala dynasty ruled for nearly four centuries between the mid to late 8th century to 12th century CE. The Palas were often described by opponents as the Lords of Gauḍa. It was also a prosperous city during the Sena dynasty's rule in Bengal. However, its most well documented history begins with its conquest in 1198 by the Muslims, who retained it as the chief seat of their power in Bengal for more than three centuries. Around the year 1350, the Sultans of Bengalestablished their independence, and transferred their seat of government to Pandua (q.v.), also in Malda district. To build their new capital, they plundered Gauḍa of every monument that could be removed. When Pandua was in its turn deserted (1453), Gauḍa once more became the capital under the name Jannatabad; it remained so as long as the Muslim kings retained their independence.
Hinduism in West Bengal
Hinduism is the largest religious tradition in the Indian state of West Bengal (Paschimbanga) with 70.53 % of the population identifying themselves as Hindus (as of 2011). The Hindus in West Bengal mostly belong to the Vaishnavite, Shakta and Shaivite denominations. The vast majority of Hindus in West Bengal are Bengali Hindus, but a notable section of non-Bengali Hindus also exist, particularly among Marwaris, Biharis, Odias, Gurkhas and various tribal communities. The Hindu population in West Bengal is expected to reach 70,666,257 according to 2021 census report and Hindus will make up 68.5 % of West Bengal population .Hinduism had existed in the region of Bengal before the 16th century BC and by the 3rd century, Buddhism and Jainism were popular too. Gaur, the first sovereign Hindu kingdom in Bengal with its capital in Karnasubarna in modern-day Murshidabad district, was set up by Shashanka, a Shaivaite king who ruled approximately between 600 AD and 625 AD. The modern structure of Bengali Hindu society was developed during the rule of the Sena dynasty in the 12th century AD. Islam arrived in Bengal in the 13th century and subsequently conquered the region. But while the Muslim saints and rulers successfully spread Islam and established it as the major religion of eastern parts of Bengal (now Bangladesh), they fail do the same in the western parts because of the strong base of Vaishnavism and folk Hinduism in the Rarh and the Gangetic regions of West Bengal where Hinduism remains the predominant religious group till today. West Bengal has been home to several famous religious teachers, including Sri Chaitanya, Sri Ramakrishna, Rammohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Paramahansa Yogananda who helped to abolish evil practices like sati, dowry, and caste-based discrimination or untouchability that crept into the Hindu society during the Middle Ages. But they also played an important role in the resurgence of Hindu nationalism in Bengal. This inherent Hindu identity was the chief factor in Bengali Hindu Homeland Movement which successfully resisted the plan to create a United Bengal and campaigned for the establishing a separate state of West Bengal in India on the eve of Partition of India in 1947.The language of the Hindus in West Bengal is Bengali. A large number of Hindu religious texts like biographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Mangal-kavyas, Bratakathas and Panchalis as well as dharmik writings of modern Bengali philosophers and saints have been produced in Bengali for many centuries.Kali and Chandi are the most worshipped Hindu goddesses in West Bengal. Worship of Durga, Kali, Shiva, Krishna and other gods and goddesses is also common. Durga Puja is the most important festival of the Hindus in West Bengal as well as the most significant festival of the state in general. Kali Puja is the second major festival of the community and it corresponds to the pan-Indian festival of Diwali. Other major festivals include Kojagari Lakshmi Puja, Dolyatra, Jagaddhatri Puja, Rathayatra, Saraswati Puja, Poila Baishakh, Vishwakarma Puja, Gajan, Poush Parban etc.
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Archelogical ruins of the walled City of Gour ( also called Gouda, Lakhnauti) at India-Bangladesh border in the district of Malda, West Bengal.
Gour was ruled by famous Bengali Kings like Shashanka. Later ruled by Gopala, 1st elected Buddhist King of Bengal (7th Century) of Pala empire which ruled for 4 centuries. The present ruins, however, reveals mostly muslim monuments (15-17th century) of subsequent rules by Sultans replacing architecture Sena Dynasty of era of Hindu -Buddhist Kings.
The ruins of monument are presently looked after by the Archeological Survey of India.
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