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The village in Koyra where Khan Jahan Ali’s disciple settled more than 550 years ago
‘Amadi’ is a green-brown village in Koira, adjacent to the Sundarbans, 90 kilometers south of Khulna district town. The village’s winding paths, rows of trees, fields of crops, and ponds dotted with greenery seem like a painting by an artist. More than 550 years ago, Khan Jahan Ali’s (RA) trusted companion Borhan Khan alias Bura Khan and his son Fateh Khan settled in this village. Historians have mentioned in their books that the village was named ‘Amadi’ after they cut down the forest and started cultivation, and a new population arrived there.
The village in Koyra where Khan Jahan Ali’s disciple settled more than 550 years ago
Written history shows that Jalal Uddin Muhammad Shah was the Sultan of Bengal from 1418 to 1433. At that time, Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali (RA) came to South Bengal. He reached Murali in Jessore and divided the caravan into two parts. He himself set out towards Bagerhat with a group of companions. Another group, led by Khan Jahan Ali’s trusted companion Borhan Khan alias Bura Khan, settled in the Amadi area of Koyra adjacent to the Sundarbans to the south.
The idea of Bura Khan’s settlement in the village of Amadi is found in Satish Chandra Mitra’s book ‘History of Jessohar Khulna Itihas’. He wrote that Bura Khan was the main companion of Khan Jahan Ali. On the western side of the village of Amadi, there were graves of both Bura Khan and Fateh Khan. Not far from the graves, there are various signs of fragments of houses. In the book ‘History and Heritage of Koyra Upazila’, A B M Abdul Malek, a retired teacher of Koyra Kapotaksha College, writes, ‘In the middle of the fifteenth century, Borhan Khan alias Bura Khan and his son Fateh Khan came to the Amadi area. They built the Masjidkun mosque there. Currently, there are traces of their house on the south side of the Amadi land office. Next to it, there are various things that have been dug by them, such as a rice washing pond, a dal washing pond, and a elephant bandar pond. The Amadi pond is on the east side of the Amadi Bazar.’
Amadi village is located about 15 kilometers north of the Koira Upazila headquarters. When you go to the place where Borhan Khan alias Bura Khan lived, you can see that there are no houses there, just a high mound. On top of it, a palm tree has emerged from inside a large banyan tree and has risen upwards with its branches parallel to the banyan tree. The base of the palm tree is covered in the trunk of the banyan tree. The fragments of bricks and stones of the ancient settlement are scattered around the mound.
