Qubāzpūr was a town and pargana in western Bengal during the time of the Mughal Empire; the pargana at least also continued to exist under the British Raj. Its exact location is unknown, but its approximate location was in present-day Purba Bardhaman district, somewhere between Samudragarh and Katwa.
History[edit | edit source]
The Ain-i Akbari listed Qubazpur as a mahal in sarkar Sulaimanabad. Its assessed revenue was 1,589,332 dams.[1]:140 Irfan Habib also identifies Qubazpur with the town of "Cubbadgepore" mentioned by the 17th-century British agent John Marshall in his diary.[2]:44 Marshall, who passed through Qubazpur in May 1671, described it as being one stage north of Samudragarh ("Summudgur") and four stages south of Ghazipur; he also noted the presence of a sarāī, or inn for travellers.[3]:112 Later, in the 1800s, John Beames identified Qubazpur as the name of a pargana in what is now Purba Bardhaman district, comprising "70 villages scattered along the left bank of the Hugli river" both north and south of Purbasthali.[4]:100
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1891). The Ain-i-Akbari. Translated by Jarrett, Henry Sullivan. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- ↑ Habib, Irfan (1982). An Atlas of the Mughal Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195603796. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
- ↑ Khan, Shafaat Ahmad (1927). John Marshall in India. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ↑ Beames, John (1896). "Notes on Akbar's Súbahs, with Reference to the Aín-i Akbarí". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Jan. 1896): 83–136. JSTOR 25207777. Retrieved 5 June 2023.