Ahsan Manjil

Ahsan Manzil (Bengali: আহসান মঞ্জিল, Ahsan Monjil) was the authority private royal residence and seat of the Nawab of Dhaka.[1] The building is arranged at Kumartoli along the banks of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Development was begun in 1859 and was finished in 1872.[1] It was built in the Indo-Saracenic Revival design. It has been assigned as a national historical center.

History:

In Mughal period, there was a garden place of Sheik Enayet Ullah, the proprietor of Jamalpur Porgona (area), in this place. Sheik Enayet Ullah was an extremely beguiling individual. He gained a major territory in Kumortuli (Kumartuli) and included it in his garden house. Here he fabricated a lovely royal residence and named it "Rongmohol" (Rangmahal). He used to appreciate here keeping wonderful young ladies gathered from the nation and abroad, dressing them with exquisite dresses and costly decorations. There is a colloquialism that, the foujdar of Dhaka (delegate of mughal head) was pulled in to one of the excellent young ladies. He welcomed Sheik Enayet Ullah to a gathering one night and murdered him in an intrigue when he was returning home. That young lady likewise dedicated suicide in resentment and distress. There was a grave of Sheik Enayet Ullah in the north-east corner of the castle yard which was demolished in the start of the twentieth century. 

Most likely in the time of Nawab Alibardi Khan around 1740 century, Sheik Moti Ullah, the child of Sheik Enayet Ullah, sold the property to the French dealers. There was a French exchanging house next to this property. The exchanging house ended up wealthier subsequent to obtaining this property. In that time, French dealers could work together here without making good on any regulatory expenses by a pronouncement from the sovereign Aurangzeb. In that time, the French turned out to be extremely affluent by working together here in rivalry with the English and other European organizations. They made a major royal residence and burrowed a lake for sweet water in the recently obtained property. The lake still exists in the compound of Ahsan Manzil which was classified "Les Jalla" in that time. In the English-French war, French got vanquished and every one of their properties were caught by the English. On 22 June 1757, the French went out with an armada of 35 water crafts from the stream station of Buriganga before

In 1785, the French exchanged the property to a French tradesman named Mr. Champigni, and retaken it at 1801. As indicated by Paris assention of 1814, the French guaranteed all their left properties at Dhaka, and in 1827 the property was again come back to the French. For the expanding intensity of the English, the French was compelled to leave subcontinent. They chose to offer every one of their properties in Dhaka. So in 1830, the exchanging place of Kumartuli was bought by the built up proprietor of Dhaka Khwaja Alimullah. 

After some redesign work, the exchanging house turned into the home of Khwaja Alimullah. In his time, a stable and a family mosque was included the compound. After his passing, his child Khwaja Abdul Gani made an extraordinary thrive to the property, and named it "Ahsan Manjil" on his child Ahsan Ullah. In the east side of the old building, he made another working with an alternate structure, and furthermore done extraordinary redesign work to the old building. From that point forward, the old building was designated "Ondor Mohol" and the new building was classified "Rong mohol". 

At night of 7 April 1888, an overwhelming tornado hit Dhaka city causing extraordinary harm. Ahsan Manjil was seriously harmed and surrendered. An English architect from Kolkata landed here to analyze the royal residence. He gave conclusion that aside from the "Rangmahal", the various parts of the castle would need to be remade. So Khwaja Abdul Gani and his child Ahsanullah directed their full concentration toward revamp the castle. Both of the structures were remade amid that time with another plan and directed by the nearby specialist Gobinda Chandra Roy. 

The old French building was remade to a two storied building holding similitude to the Rangmahal. A path was made with wood associating the principal floors of the two structures. The most wonderful thing set aside a few minutes was the vault, which made the royal residence so delightful. 

After the passing of Khwaja Ahsanullah in 1901, the wonder of Ahsan Manjil was finished. His successors couldn't proceed with the greatness in view of the inward family squabble. They leased diverse parts of the castle to inhabitants, who really made it a ghetto. In 1952, govt. gained the property and left in supervision of the Dhaka Nawab court. In 1985, Dhaka National Museum gained the property and made it a gallery following a huge rebuilding program which used memorable photos of the property.[2]