Nannar (village)
Nannar
নান্নার | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Nannar Village | |
 Ruins of the 250 room Dhar Zamindar Bari c. 2019 | |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Division | Dhaka |
| District | Dhaka |
| Upazila | Dhamrai |
| Union | Nannar Union |
| Languages | |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (BST) |
| Postal code | 1351 |
Nannar is a village in Dhamrai Upazila of Dhaka District in the Dhaka Division of central Bangladesh. It serves as the administrative headquarters of Nannar Union.[1][2]
Geography
Nannar is located in the northern part of Dhamrai Upazila, surrounded by agricultural flatlands typical of the Dhaka District geography.[3]
Attractions
Nannar Village is known for the Nannar royal family (Branch of the House of Dar Raj), a Kashmiri Pandit royal family who built the 250 room Nannar Rajbari at Jalsin, Rowail, Nannar.[4] They occupied over 40,000 acres of land all over Dhamrai and then Bengal.[5]
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, the population of Nannar consists primarily of ethnic Bengalis. The majority of the population adheres to Islam, with a significant minority practicing Hinduism. The primary language spoken is Bengali.
See also
References
- ↑ "opar bangla". oparbangla.com. Retrieved 2026-07-07.
- ↑ "নান্নার ইউনিয়ন | আমার গ্রাম | আমার শেকড়, আমার গর্ব — তথ্য ও সেবা এখন হাতের মুঠোয়". আমার গ্রাম: স্মার্ট প্ল্যাটফর্ম. Retrieved 2026-07-07.
- ↑ "Map of Nannar Mouza, Dhamrai, Dhaka". www.thebangladesh.net. Retrieved 2026-07-07.
- ↑ BL, Jitendranath Ghose (1931-07-21). The Raja of Dar- Life and Legacy of Virendra Vasudev of Dar- ویرِندرا واسودِو موهان دار. Bridgebit Printing Works, Bowbajaar, Calcutta 1931. pp. 26, 27, 28.
- ↑ Anirban Chattopadhyay, "Virendramohan of Dar Raj: Locating Subaltern Voices in the Bengali Novel", in: Tirthankar Roy and Tapati Guha-Thakurta, eds, Literary Cartographies of Bengal, Volume 2: Textual Politics and the Colonial State, Kolkata: Academic Publishers, 2014, pp. 114-132.