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Badarganj Upazila

Badarganj Upazila

Badarganj (Bengali: বদরগঞ্জ) is an Upazila of Rangpur District in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh.
Badarganj is named after the mystic-saint Hazrat Badaruddin Shah. His tomb is situated in the middle of the town. After the conquests of Bengal, Turki Commander Ikhtiyar Uddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji stopped over at a field at Mansinghapur, Madai Khamar during his invasion of Tibet in 1203 AD to feed his horses. After that event, the field was named 'Bakhtiyar Danga'.

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