Khaliajuri
খালিয়াজুড়ি
Upazila
Bridge at Boali Bazar
Bridge at Boali Bazar
Location of Khaliajuri
Coordinates: 24°42′N 91°7.5′E / 24.700°N 91.1250°E / 24.700; 91.1250
Country Bangladesh
DivisionMymensingh
DistrictNetrokona
Thana1906
Upazila1983
Government
 • Upazila ChairmanGhulam Kibria Jabbar
 • MP (Netrokona-4)Rebecca Momin
Area
 • Total297.64 km2 (114.92 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total97,450
 • Density330/km2 (850/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+6 (BST)
Websitekhaliajuri.netrokona.gov.bd

Khaliajuri (Bengali: খালিয়াজুড়ি) is an upazila (sub-district) of the Netrokona District in Bangladesh, part of the Mymensingh Division.[1]

History

Until the middle of the fourteenth century AD, the Bhati Rajya (Khaliajuri and surrounding areas) was the capital of Kamarupa. In the fourteenth century, a Kshatriya monk named Jitari invaded and occupied Bhati Rajya. Another Kshatriya monk named Lambodar came took over the rule of Bhati in the twelfth century.[2] Nagendranath Basu asserts that Lambodar and Jitari may have been the same person.[3]

In the 16th-century, Khaliajuri was home to a Bengali Hindu man called Shitanath Om. His three sons; Raghunath Om, Kamakhya Om and Maheshnath Om, later found employment under Khwaja Usman of Bokainagar, a Baro-Bhuiyan chief who had control over large parts of Greater Mymensingh. Following the defeat of Raja Subid Narayan of Ita by Khwaja Usman and his allies which included the Om family, the Om brothers migrated to Satgaon in Sreemangal, Sylhet where they were given jagir.[4]

In 1906, a thana (police outpost) was established in Khaliajuri. Khaliajuri Thana's status was upgraded to upazila (sub-district) in 1983 as part of the President of Bangladesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad's decentralisation programme.

Geography

Khaliajuri is located at 24°42′00″N 91°07′30″E / 24.7000°N 91.1250°E / 24.7000; 91.1250. It has 12903 households and total area 297.64 km2 (114.92 sq mi). It is bounded by Mohanganj and Jamalganj upazilas on the north, Itna upazila on the south, Sulla and Derai upazilas on the east, Madan upazila on the west.[1]

Demographics

Religions in Khaliajuri upazila (2011)[5]
Religion Percent
Islam
 
 66.43%
Hinduism
 
 33.54%
Other or not stated
 
 0.03%

According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Khaliajuri Upazila had 18,903 households and a population of 97,450. 29,211 (29.98%) were under 10 years of age. Khaliajuri has a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 30.39%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 957 females per 1000 males. 6,193 (6.36%) lived in urban areas.[6][5]

As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Khaliajuri had a population of 75,801. Males constituted 52.31% of the population, and females 47.69%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 39,052. Khaliajuri had an average literacy rate, of 21.5% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.[7]

Administration

Khaliajuri Thana was formed in 1906 and it was turned into an upazila in 1983.[1]

Khaliajuri Upazila is divided into six union parishads: Chakua, Gazipur, Khaliajuri, Krishnapur, Mendipur, and Nagar. The union parishads are subdivided into 54 mauzas and 75 villages.[8]

List of chairmen[9]
Name Term Notes
Muhammad Abdus Shahid Chowdhury 7/11/1983-24/5/1985 In-charge
Abdul Jalil Chowdhury 25/5/1985-29/12/1987
Muhammad Muinuddin 14/1/1988-14/2/1988 In-charge
Qazi Nurul Islam 15/2/1988-17/7/1988 In-charge
Siddiqur Rahman Taluqdar 17/7/1988-24/5/1990
Haji Zaynul Abidin 28/5/1990-22/11/1990 In-charge
Abdul Mannan Taluqdar 23/11/1990-23/11/1991
Ghulam Kibria Jabbar Krishnapuri 4/3/2009-1/4/2014
Muhammad Shamsuzzaman Taluqdar Shuayb Siddiqi 2/4/2014-10/2/2019
Ghulam Kibria Jabbar Krishnapuri 10/4/2019-present 2nd term

Notable people

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Chanda, Jiban Kumar (2012). "Khaliajuri Upazila". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  2. ↑ Majumdar, Kodarnath. ময়মনসিংহের ইতিহাস [History of Mymensingh] (in Bengali). p. 15.
  3. ↑ Basu, Nagendranath. Bangla Bishwakosh বাংলা বিশ্বকোষ [Bengali Encyclopedia] (in Bengali).
  4. ↑ Choudhury, Achyut Charan (1917). Srihattar Itibritta: Uttarrangsho  (in Bengali) (first ed.). Kolkata: Kotha. pp. 252–53 – via Wikisource.
  5. 1 2 "Bangladesh Population and Housing Census 2011 Zila Report – Netrokona" (PDF). bbs.gov.bd. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
  6. ↑ "Community Tables: Netrokona district" (PDF). bbs.gov.bd. 2011.
  7. ↑ "Population Census Wing, BBS". Archived from the original on 2005-03-27. Retrieved November 10, 2006.
  8. ↑ "District Statistics 2011: Netrokona" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  9. ↑ "Previous Chairmen". Khaliyazuri Ufozela (in Bengali).


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