Sunday, November 29, 2015

Sylhet

Tea Garden
Sylhet is a noteworthy city that lies on the banks of
Sylhet is a noticeable Islamic profound focus and home to various Sufi places of worship. It has the fourteenth century catacombs of Shah Jalal and Shah Paran. The Sylhet region was constituted amid the British Raj in 1867. It was a piece of the Bengal Presidency and the Assam Province. Upon a submission, it turned out to be a piece of East Bengal in the Pakistani Dominion after the Partition of British India in 1947. Sylhet turned into a point of convergence for Bengali progressives amid the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It was the main residence of General M A G Osmani, the Commander-in-Chief of Bangladesh Forces.

Surma River in north-east Bangladesh. The city has a populace of more than 500,000 individuals. It is encompassed by tea bequests, sub-tropical slopes, downpour timberlands and waterway valleys; the locale is one of the main vacationer destinations in the nation.

The Sylhet Division creates the vast majority of Bangladesh's tea yield, manure and regular gas. It is additionally known for its stick, citrus, timber and agarwood. Sylhet is a noteworthy beneficiary of settlements from the Bangladeshi diaspora, especially from the United Kingdom. The city is served by the Osmani International Airport. It is joined with the Port of Chittagong by the N2 and the Bangladesh Railway. The Bangladesh-India outskirt in Tamabil is situated toward the north of the city. Sylhet is additionally home to the Shahjalal, Shah poran, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Sylhet has a worldwide cricket stadium, Sylhet Agricultural University, Shahjalal Fertilizer Factory Ltd.

Geology and atmosphere.

Sylhet is situated at 24.8917°N 91.8833°E, in the north eastern locale of Bangladesh inside of the Sylhet Division, inside of the Sylhet District and Sylhet Sadar Upazila. The atmosphere of Sylhet is damp subtropical with an overwhelmingly hot and sticky summer and a moderately cool winter. The city is inside of the rainstorm climatic zone, with yearly normal most astounding temperatures of 23 °C (Aug–Oct) and normal least temperature of 7 °C (Jan). About 80% of the yearly normal precipitation of 3,334 mm happens in the middle of May and September.
Badhaghat,Sylhet.

The city is situated inside of the locale where there are slopes and bowls which constitute a standout amongst the most unmistakable districts in Bangladesh. The physiography of Sylhet comprises basically of slope soils, incorporating a couple of substantial sorrows referred to locally as "beels" which can be for the most part named oxbow lakes, brought about by tectonic subsidence fundamentally amid the seismic tremor of 1762. It is flanked by the Indian conditions of the Meghalaya in the north, Assam in the east, Tripura in the south and the Bangladesh areas of Netrokona, Kishoregonj and Brahmanbaria in the west. The region secured by Sylhet Division is 12,569 km², which is around 8% of the aggregate area territory of Bangladesh.

Topographically, the area is intricate having differing conciliatory geomorphology; high geography of Plio-Miocene age, for example, Khasi and Jaintia slopes and little hillocks along the outskirt. At the middle there is a limitless low laying surge plain of late source with saucer formed miseries, privately called Haors. Accessible limestone stores in diverse parts of the locale recommend that the entire region was under the sea in the Oligo-Miocene. In the most recent 150 years three noteworthy seismic tremors hit the city, at a size of no less than 7.5 on the Richter Scale, the last one occurred in 1918, albeit numerous individuals are ignorant that Sylhet lies on the quake inclined zone of Bangladesh.

Society

Given its exceptional social and financial improvement, and etymological contrasts (Greater Sylhet district was a piece of Assam and Surma Valley State for a great part of the British Raj in examination to whatever is left of Bangladesh), and given that Sylhet has, for the greater part of its late history, been a locale of a bigger entity. As such a variety of Sylhetis are inhabitant abroad, Sylhet has a noteworthy stream of outside money from non-occupant Bangladeshis. The major occasions celebrated in Sylhet incorporate conventional and religious festivals, Muslim celebrations of Ramadan and afterward after, Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha. Cultural or nationalistic festivals incorporate the Language Movement Day, this is the place wreaths are laid at the Shaheed Minar paying tribute to the saints, the Bangladeshi Independence Day, Victory Day celebrated with parades by school and institutes, and the Pohela Baishakh—festivity of the Bengali New Year. Relational unions are drilled in a conventional Bengali Muslim style, with the gaaye halud, mehendi workmanship and sacred petitions to God.

Religion


The dominant part of Sylhetis are Muslims (90%), different religious gatherings incorporate Hindus (8%), and not very many quantities of different religions, basically Buddhists and Christians (under 2%). Most of the Muslims are principally Sunni Hanafi;[16] and there are noteworthy quantities of individuals who additionally take after Sufi standards, the most compelling is the teachings of Maulana Abdul Latif who was from the town of Fultoli, Zakigang. He was a relative of Hazrat Shah Kamal, one of the pupils of Shah Jalal.[51] Research in Bangladesh found that 60% of Sylhetis implore day by day when contra.

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