Sherpur

Sherpur is a locale in focal Bangladesh. It is a piece of Mymensingh Division. Sherpur area was a sub-division of Jamalpur region. It was moved up to a region on February 22, 1984. Sherpur city is situated around 198 km north of Dhaka which is the capital of the country. Sherpur area was a piece of the kingdom of the Kamarupa in the old time. Amid the rule of the Mughal Emperor Akbar this territory was classified "Dashkahania Baju". Amid the initial segment of the seventeenth century the Gazis of Bhawal involved Dashkahania zone from the relatives of Isa Khan. Doshkahania Pargana was named Sherpur after Sher Ali Gazi, the last jaghirdar of the Gazi line.

Fakir-Sannyasi Revolts were held against the East India Company and the neighborhood zamindars from the season of warren hastings to ruler cornowalis; Tipu Shah, pioneer of the Fakir Movement, announced sway in the region and built up his capital at Gajripa. Worker gatherings were held in 1906, 1914 and 1917 at Kamarer Char of Sherpur under the administration of Khos Muhammad Chowdhury. The socialists rebelled against the frameworks of Nankar, Tonk, Bhawali, Mahajani, Ijaradari amid 1838-48 in Sherpur. In 1897 a staggering earth quack changed the course of the Brahmaputra towards the west and compelled to blend it with the Jamuna; it likewise made genuine harms numerous old structures.