Amjhupi Nilkuthi: The Best Kept Secrets About Indian History

 

Amjhupi Nilkuthi: The Best Kept Secrets About Indian History

'Nilkuthi' a Bengali word means the house relates to Indigo. At colonial era the British businessmen introduced the Indigo production in the subcontinent. It was established to control the indigo cultivation in adjacent area. Later on this Nilkuthi used as an office of East India Company. Many notorious torture histories like murder, rape, hijacking related to this building. At present this historical building is situated at Amjhupi village under Meherpur district in south western border of Bangladesh.

The building- Neel Kuthi

Ancient concept of luxury used in building construction. The wooden floor used to keep the building warm at winter and water reservoir under the wooden floor keep the building cool at summer. Hot air produced by burning wood circulated through the metal pipe inside the wall and roof of the building to keep warm in cold winter season. 

Wooden floor

Part of floor made of very slippery green stone to give aesthetic view and prevent snake movement. 

Glass floor to prevent Snake

Artifact on wall

That period about 1800 AD the maximum communications done through writing letter. The bird, pigeon was the reliable carrier of those letters.

Pigeon Cage 

Intro stone (English)

Intro Stone (Bengali)

Notice from Department of Archaeology

You can spend a full day with the harmony of nature and history at this nice place. Here the lovely river Kajla is adjacent to the building. A brick made sloppy stair reached to the middle of the river. The blue sky over head and the green grass, green crop field up to the boundary of your eyes give a pleasant feeling. The sweetest call sound of different bird adding an extra love to the nature. All give you a refreshed and recharged mind.

The Natural beauty of the adjacent area

A Popular Misconception

There is a popular misconception among the public that the Amjhupi Nilkuthi was used as the site of conspiracy meetings to overthrow Nawab Siraj-ud-Doula. However, this is entirely unfounded. Nawab Siraj-ud-Doula died in 1757 AD, while the Nilkuthi was not established until the early 1900s. Thus, it is historically inaccurate to link the Nilkuthi to events surrounding the demise of Nawab Siraj-ud-Doula.

How to Reach

You can easily go to Amjhupi from Dhaka the capital city of Bangladesh. From Kallyanpur bus stop or Gabtoli bus terminal at Dhaka you can easily find bus bound to Meherpur from Dhaka. After reaching Meherpur bus stand you can catch auto rickshaw or three wheeler to reach Amjhupi Nilkuthi. It's about 5.5 km distance from Meherpur bus stand.