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Maulavl ‘Abdul Wall— Jdmi 1 Masjid at Sailkupa. 
[No. 1, 
It has an old bazar , a Zamindari Kachari, formerly belonging to the 
Te-ani Raja of Mabmudshahl Pargana, &c., but subsequently a 
masouary building was erected by Babu Guruprasad Nandi, a 
Taluqdar, and now from several years the Narail Babus’ Kachari is 
located therein. 
An indigo factory, with a two-storeyed house has been pulled 
down. The Kumar, since about 50 years, has shifted a good deal, and 
several houses have been swept away. The site of the old Bazar— 
which was on the south of the present one—with three rows of shops, 
have gradually disappeared. A 'permit ghat, called Pahca-chatra ghat, 
with an office, close to Qazi-para Khal have also gone. The village is 
divided into Mahalla’s. The quarter in which the mosque with tfilaL 
(tank) and the Rauza of the Maulana Sahib are situated is called 
Dargah-para or Masjid-para. One Mahalla is called Nagarpara (town) 
inhabited mostly by tradesmen, and £ahas ; another quarter is called 
Khalisa-para (or Government Khas lands). 1 
Murshid Qull Khan in 1722 completed his Kamil Jama ‘ tumdri (or 
complete rent roll) and divided Bengal into Sarkars, Caklas, and 
Parganas. On the establishment of the British Administration, 
Divisions, Zilas, and Parganas, &c,, were substituted. Of the old 
Divisions, Pargana has survived. While examining old deeds, I found 
that Qasba (town) Sailkiipa was lying in Sarkar Mahmudabad, Pargana 
Tara ujiyal, Muzaf Suba-i-Jannatu-l-Bilad Bangfila 2 (heaven of 
countries, Bengal). The present Zamindari Kachari of Mahmiidshahi 
Pargana, &c., (incorrectly called Muhammadshahi) is still styled 
“ Cakla Kachari,” and the several Parganas which constituted the 
Cakla are briefly called Mahmudshdhi WaghairaliuJ 
The Jami‘ Masjid is situated in the centre of the Mauza‘, which was 
Sailkupa was one of the places from which price lists were sent to the Collector of 
Jessore as early as 1790 A.D. J. Westland, Report, p. 209. 
1 The following idols have been established at Sailkupa by pious Hindus : 
SiddheQvarl Krsna-Balaram, and Ram-G5pal. The last named pair of idols are 
very famous, and have endowments of rent-free-lands. 
* Mahmud Shahl and Tara-ujiyal are mentioned among the Parganas of Sarkar 
Mahmudabad in the Am-i-AJclciri: Yol. II, p. 133, Jarrett. 
8 Madhav Bhattacaryya of Ulla (near Naldanga) was Court-Pandit of Sultan 
Husain Shah from whom he got five villages. His descendants, the Rajas of 
Naldanga, got from time to time several Parganas, about 34 or 35, which they had 
intact, till the estate became, to a great extent, lost to the family. Their Cakla 
Kachari was close to the Sub-Divisional head-quarter at Jhenidah (extracted from a 
Vernacular paper, also vide Report on the District of Jessore, its Antiquities, its 
Ilistoxy and its Commerce by J. Westland, Esq., Second Ed. 1874, pp. 42-49, but 
the information given in the Report is incomplete). 
