Bakerganj District

Backergunge Bakarganj বাকেরগঞ্জ
District of the Bengal Presidency
← 1760–1947 →
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Backergunge District in a 1909 Eastern Bengal map of The Imperial Gazetteer of India
Capital		Barisal
History
•	Establishment of the district	1760
•	Partition of India	1947
Area
•	1901	11,763 km2(4,542 sq mi)
Population
•	1901	2,291,752
	Density	194.8 /km2  (504.6 /sq mi)
Today part of		Bangladesh
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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Backergunge, Backergunje, Bakarganj, or Bakerganj was a former district of British India. It was the southernmost district of the Dacca Division. The district was located in the swampy lowlands of the vast delta of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers.

Backergunge District was established in 1760 under the Bengal Presidency. In 1947 the district became part of East Pakistan. The area of the former Backergunge district is now covered by the Barisal Division of Bangladesh. The current administrative division also contains a Barisal District and a Bakerganj Upazila.

Backergunge District was bound in the north by Faridpur District and in the east by the Meghna and Shahbazpur rivers.

In 1801 the Barisal subdivision was formed within the district, divided in six thanas: Barisal, Jhalakati, Nalchiti, Bakarhanj, Mehndiganj and Gaurnadi.

The general aspect of the district was that of a flat even country, dotted with clusters of bamboo and arecanut palms, and intersected by a network of dark-coloured and sluggish streams. There is not a hill or hillock in the whole district, but it derives a certain picturesque beauty from its wide expanses of cultivation, and the greenness and freshness of the vegetation. This was especially true immediately after the rains, although at no time of the year does the district presented a dried-up or burnt appearance. The villages were often surrounded by groves of bamboo, arecanut palms and betel vines.

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