![]() Thanks to their selfless charity and donations in the form of estate and funds, today Bangladesh has their three top institutions of higher education, the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Dhaka Medical College. Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury of the Nawab family of Dhonbari, Tangail even mortgaged a part of their estate to collect funds for the university. The property also included Nawab's gardens and court buildings (now Madhur canteen and Shahbagh area). ![]() ![]() Dhaka's Nawab Khwaja Salimullah donated 600 acres of land to establish necessary buildings for the university. In the early twentieth century, when Calcutta's political and social elites were protesting against the formation of a university in East Bengal, which would educate the “uncouth, working class”, the Nawabs of East Bengal came forward. ![]() Info: Md Shahnawaz Khan Chandan, Design: Ehsanur Raza Ronny ![]()
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