Kushtia

Kushtia is a district in the Khulna administrative department of western Bangladesh. Kushtia has existed as a separate district because the partition of India. Prior to that, Kushtia become a part of Nadia District below Bengal Province of British India. Kushtia turned into the ancestral land of many well-known human beings consisting of Rabindranath Tagore, Lalon Fakir, S.I. Tutul etc The Shilaidah Kuthibari is an ancestral mansion of the erstwhile Tagore Zamindari.

The Kuthibari, located at Shilaidaha in Kumarkhali Upazila of the Kushtia district, is simplest 20 km from Kushtia metropolis. Rabindaranath Tagore lived right here for part of his existence, and wrote many memorable poems there. The Kuthibari is now a museum, and is cared for by means of the Archaeological Department of Bangladesh. The shrine of Lalon Fakir, the founding father of the Baoul faith is located at Cheouria, approximately 2 km from the Kushtia railway station.

Kushtia is the birthplace of many historical figures which include Mir Mosharraf Hossain 1847–1912, Bagha Jatin 1879–1915 and Lalon Fakir 1774–1890. Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore lived his adolescence at Shelaidaha.However, at some stage in the British rule Kushtia changed into no longer a separate district it was a part of the Nadia district now in West Bengal. A municipality turned into installed in Kushtia in 1869.