Dhaka History

Four Hundred Years History of Dhaka City

1969 The Jinnah Avenue, now known as Bangabandhu Avenue, during a strike or hartaal...


  Dhaka City in 1990




A Jute Factory, Postogola , Dhaka (1919)

 
Ahasan Monjil


Ahsan Manzil From Buriganga , Dhaka (1955)


British Governor's house (Old High Court),1904 —

 
Construction Of Dacca International Airport

 
Curzon Hall 1908


Dhaka College @ 1890 Courtesy by Rare Picture organization
 

Dhakeswari Mandir
 

Imambara Hussaini Dalan (1904)


Mitford Hospital , Babubazar, Dhaka, (1880)


Sir Salimullah at Ahsan Manjil, Dacca. 1905.

Tejgaon airport hard strip in 1936


Wari 1960


Race Course



A British Officer's Mess, Dhaka - 1934


A Scene of Purana Paltan- 1875



An unidentified Street in Dhaka-1872



 Buriganga river side 1980


 Chawk Bazar-1904
Beside this road today's Sheikh Burhanuddin College is located. We know this road as Nazimuddin Road today.


Chawk Bazar, Dhaka- 1885



Deer Park of Nawab of Dhaka- 1875
A place at Shahbag where perhaps present day's Ramna Park is located


Old Dhaka College campus- 1872



Dhaka College 1904


Dhakeswari Mandir-1904


Kalabagan 1880


Lalbag Kella 1872


Mit Ford Hospital-1904


 Narinda (present day Old Dhaka) Christian graveyard- 1875


North Book Hall 1904


 Pari Bibir  Majar 1904


Ramna Gate-1901


 
River Padma- 1860


 St. Thomas Church- 1872 


Steel Bridge on Dholai Khal- 1904 
(That bus conductors call it Lohar Pool today)


The Tongi Bridge on the Turag river 1885


This is another picture of the Tongi bridge taken in the 1880s (from that thread). 
Wikipedia says about a bridge built by Mir Jumla there in the 1660s. Is the remains in the foreground that old bridge ? 



A Bangladeshi village- 1860


 An educated Bangladeshi of 1860



Another Bangladeshi of 1860