Ahsan Manzil is the residential palace of the nawabs and the zamindari sadar kachari in Kumartuli area on the banks of Buriganga river. Currently the museum It is said that here under the Mughal period there was the Rang Mahal of Jamalpur Pargana zamindar Sheikh Enayetullah. After purchasing Rangamahalati from his son Motiullah, the French bought a business kuthi here.
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In 1830, Khwaja Alimullah bought Kuthibari from the French and reformed it to make it its home. On behalf of this house, Khwaja Abdul Gani Martin and Company created a master plan with a European construction and engineer organization whose main building was Ahsan Manzil. Construction of Ahsan Manzil was completed in 1859 and completed in 1872. Ahsan Manzil named after the building of Abdul Ghani after his son Khwaja Ahsanullah. In that era, the newly built palace building was known as Rangamahal and the previous building was known as Andarmhal. In 1888, on April 7, a severe cyclone hit Ahsan Manzil, which was severely damaged, especially the Atramahal. Nawab Ahsanullah rebuilt the temple and repaired the color palace. To repair the work, bricks of high quality are brought from Raniganj. Engineer Govinda Chandra Roy conducted the repair work. The lovely dome that is present on the color palace is added at this time. On 12 June 1897, Ahsan Manzil again suffered huge losses in the earthquake. But after Nawab Ahsanullah reformed it.
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Ahsan Manzil is a landmark architectural feature in the country. The structure of the two-lofted palace building on a height of 1 meter is 125.4m x 28.75m. 5 meters height from floor to ceiling height and 5.8 meters in the ground floor. Carriage porch by the height of the palatial elevation of the palace to the north and south. The carriage of the south carries a large open staircase from the storied balcony on the porch to the river and goes down to the river. There was a fountain in the garden in front of the stairs which is not present. Both sides of the palace are north and south, with wide arches with semi-arch arch. The floor of the porch and chambers is decorated with marble stones.
For the construction of a dome of Ahsan Manzil, the four corners of the ground floor of the lower floor have been filled with bricks filled with bricks. The square is octagonal in front of the roof, through squinches, in the upper chamber of a flat chamber built on it. The octagonal chamber has turned into a dome on the roof. Ultimately, the dome of a pot has been made by placing the heads of the octaves on the center, gradually moving towards the center. The height of the dome above the ground is 27.13 meters.
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In the interior of the dome, the building can be divided into two sections. There is a large drawing room on the east side of the double room. Library and cardroom in the north and 4 square rooms on the east side. There is a huge jalsghar on the west side of the double-storey, Hindusthanari in the north and four square rooms at the western end. Wood-mounted vaulted sealing is very nice in the drawing room and jungle roof. This room is made of wood made of wood under the floor. On the lower floor there is a large dining hall and six square rooms. In the west there is a large court hall. Billiards room north of The dining and darbar hall floors are decorated with white, green, yellow color tiles of Chinese colors. The famous Strong Room, between the 5 rooms built on the western edge of the ground floor, where the nawab's original material was preserved.
In the room on the north side of the dome, there are attractive wooden stairs. Wooden railing is made of iron-fired ballasters and wooden ceilings rich in geometric design is very impressive. In the glorious days of the nawabs, there was a visitor's gold bundled with gold in the stairs. Eminent personalities in the palace wrote it in their comments.
The palace house walls are about 0.78m thick. The doors are placed through semicircular arches. There were many color glasses and wooden wooden blinds placed in the door. The ceilings of the rooms are built on wood chapatti.
The height of the middle floor is slightly less than the color palette. But on both sides of the floor, a large verandah built on the south side and a parapet made on the roof made a fitting side of the color palette. Ironworks have been used in the construction of the roof of the building.
Ahsan Manzil is an architecture with which several sections of Bengal's history are involved. Since the last phase of the nineteenth century, for the first part of Pakistan, for about a hundred years, the East Bengal Muslims were led from this building. As the head of the panchayet, the nawabs of Dhaka used to set up arbitration courts daily. Nawab Ahsanullah, who believes in Muslim separation, has organized many anti-Congress meetings here. British Viceroy, Governor and Lieutenant of British India The governor has come to Dhaka, all of them have come here. In 1874, Barlotte Northbrooke came to Dhaka to attend the evening ceremony in the palace in Dhaka on behalf of Nawab Abdul Ghani donation. Lord Duffin came to Dhaka in 1888 and accepted the invitation of Ahsan Manzil. In order to achieve public support for the partition of Bengal section, Lord Curzon stayed in the palace on February 18 and 19, when he visited East Bengal in 1904.
Khwaja Salimullah conducted all his political activities from this palace. It was centrally located. Ahsan Manzil is now a part of the history of the entire India Muslim League. Along with the decline of the influence of the nawabs of Dhaka, Ahsan Manzil's Joulus continued to be diminished. When the acquisition of Dhaka Nawab Estate under the Eviction Act, it became impossible for the successors of the nawab to maintain the palace. Immediately after acquiring the zamindari, Khwaja Habibullah left the palace and started living at Paribag Green House. The partners went on to ruin the building because of renting the rooms of the palace instead of judging them. In time, illegal occupants made the place a dirty slum.
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Realizing the historic and architectural importance of Ahsan Manzil, the government of Bangladesh has taken steps to reform the building and become a museum. In 1985 Ahsan Manzil and adjoining premises were acquired. The reform work of the Department of Public Works and Directorate of Architecture was completed in 1992. The palace was brought under the control of Bangladesh National Museum from September 20 of that year, and a museum was established here.
