Murshid Quli Khan was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal by Aurangzeb. Governor Murshid Quil Khan (1717-1727 A.D.) transferred the capital from Dacca to Murshidabad. He tried to save the interest of ...

It takes five and a half hours to reach Murshidabad from Kolkata. The town was built in 1704 by Murshid Quli Khan, the governor of the province of Bengal. In 1716 he rescinded his allegiance to ...

Legend has it that nearly 300 years ago Manikchand, a Jain merchant who had come from the deserts of Rajasthan to the fertile lands of Bengal, encouraged Murshid Quli Khan — who would become the ...

Photographs by PANKAJ KUMAR Murshidabad, named after its founder Murshid Quli Khan, now a nondescript town of West Bengal, was once a thriving township and one of the richest provinces of Bengal.