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Chapai Nawabganj (in Bengali: চাঁপাই নবাবগঞ্জ) is located on the north-western part of Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rajshahi Division. Originally, it was a sub-division of Malda district. In 1947, it was severed from Malda and was given to East Pakistan as a sub-division of Rajshahi district. It became a separate district of Bangladesh in 1984.〔 The north and west part of Chapai Nawabganj is bounded by Malda and Nadia of India, east is by Naogaon and south-east is by Rajshahi district. ==Etymology== The name "Chapai Nawabganj" is not too old. Before 2001, it was known as only Nawabganj or Nobabganj. In the pre-British or British-raj era, this place was vacation spot for "Nobab"'s of Murshidabad and the Daudpur Mouja was the particular place of their vacation. The "Nobab"'s used to come here with their closed persons for hunting. That's why this place was known as "Nobabganj" as Ganj means place. It is believed that the Nowab of Bengal(Bangla-Bihar and Udissa) Sarfaraz Khan(1739-1740 AD) once came here for hunting and built tent to this place. From then, this place is known as Nobabganj. But most of the researchers believes that during the Alivardi Khan(1740-56 AD), this place was given the name Nobabganj. At the start and middle of 18th century, people being afraid of British rule, migrated from Kolkata to here to a great extent and made this a very busy populated place. This was spread quickly to the outside and widen the populated area. There was a post office at that time which was located to the village whose name was "Chapai". This lead the spreading of Chapai and this place was called widely as Chapai Nawabganj. There is no strong historical proof about the name of this place but people usually believes in two different source of being named this place. # There is a village at about 5/6 miles away from the current town nawabganj named Maheshpur. During the Nobab era, a dancer named "Champa Bati" or "Champa Rani" or "Champa Bai" lived there who was very famous to the Nobabs and they usually visited this place to watch her performing dance. Based on her name, this place is called Chapai Nawabganj. # Another popular belief about the name of this place is that- The king Lakhindar lives here and his capitol's name was "Champok". But there is know reference about the exact place of "Champok" but there is still the places named "Chosai", "Behula" and also there is also a river named "Behual". The river currently flows through Malda. According to historian Aksai Kumar Moitrio(1861-1930 AD), Behula crossed the river Mohananda with his husband using the floating boat made of tree. Dr. Muhammad Shahidulla(1885-1969 AD) cited in his book "Bangla Sahitter Kotha" that the enemy of laoson entered into Gaur through "Jamutinagar". "Jamuti Nagar" still exists to this area. Based on these believes, researchers believes that the home of Bahula's father in law was in "Champok Nagar" and Chapai Nawabganj came from this "Champok Nagar". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chapai Nawabganj District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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