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AHSAN MANJIL, THE PINK PALACE

This neo classical building, with some distinctly oriental influences, stands on the banks of the much abused Buriganga River in Old Dhaka. Painted a rather lurid pink, it is a living testament to the lack of a traditional aristocracy in Bangladesh. Reconstructed after 1888 by Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur, the fourth ‘Nawab of Dhaka’, following a disastrous cyclone that ravaged earlier building work, it shares much of its distinctively Bengali Anglo Oriental appearance with many of the…

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