Malkhanagarh is the village that was left behind by Basu Thakur house. It is a name, a history. Who gave this name? What is its origin? This is a long story. We have to find out about its birth time. In case of humans and institution there will always be a birthday, time or year but that does not exist in case of a village. History says Malkhanagarh existed from the time of the Mughal Empire. The place of birth of this village is Bangladesh’s Bikrampur district. Bikrampur is situated in the river lands on the Eastern Plains of present Bangladesh, which is spreading its name since time immemorial.

Let’s talk about the history of this village a bit more. In the Seventeenth century due to the pressure from the Mugs from Arakan and the Portuguese pirates, the common people of Barisal along with people from Khulna, Faridpur and Dhaka got really annoyed. In the year 1668 emperor Aurangzeb sent his close aid and general Sayastha Khan to Bengal. He became the ruler of Bengal under Emperor Aurangzeb. He appointed Devidas Basu Thakur as a public Surveyor (Kanungo) at Naoara Mahal in 1665 AD (Approximately). At that time the title used to carry a lot more weight than it does now.

Emperor Akbar created a navy in order to save the people of Bengal from the Mug goons. He gave a lot of land to a lot of powerful and wealthy people to raise the money for the navy expenditure.

This region was very fertile and in order to rule these lands Naoara Mahal was created. The office of Naoara Mahal used to overlook the maintenance of these lands. The office was at Dhaka at that time. The place where Sri Debidas Basu used to stay with his family at that time was named ‘Basu r Bazaar’. This was named either after him or his father. The pond that they made was still there during the time of partition. Even the ‘Basu r Bazaar Haat’ was created by them. Basu r Bazaar, Dayagunj, Narandiya etc. was enjoyed as ‘Lakheraj’ by the house of the Basu’s before the partition. At the present times ‘Devidas Basu Ghat’ or ‘Devidas Basu Ghat Road’ bear proof of the glorious history of the house of the Basu’s.

Devidas Basu was a Pargana Kanungo as well as Kanungo of the entire Naoara Mahal. Naoara Mahal was divided into fifty five Parganas. The annual profit from that were approximately Fourteen Lakh rupees. That is why Sri Debidas Basu was quite influential at that time.

Following the instructions from the Mughal rulers Sri Debidas Basu Thakur built his office house two miles South of Dhaleswari River at the Naoara Mahal.

In this office the room on the Southern side was reserved for record keeping and for storing valuable goods. The room was called ‘Malkhana’. This led to the name ‘Malkhanagarh’. Since this was the headquarter, the village became very powerful and important than any other villages in the area. The village became the most influential village of the Bikrampur district. Also since the descendants of the house of the Basu’s stayed there in the eighteenth century all government records show the name ‘Mouja Deulbhog’ and ‘Basurnagar’. So they patched ‘Malkhana’ and ‘Nagar’ from ‘Basurnagar’ to derive the final name ‘Malkhananagar’. Later this name evolved to ‘Malkhanagarh’ from ‘Malkhananagar’.