Katwa - History

History

The small town has a five hundred year old history. The city's earliest known name was Indranee Pargana. The name was later changed to Kantak Nagari ("the city of thorns") and it became the fort area of Murshid Kuli Khan, the Nawab of Bengal. Katwa was invaded by the Bargis (break-away Maratha groups) several times.

This was the place where Chaitanya got sannyasa from Kesava Bharati. Since then, this small township has been a sacred place for the Vaishnavites of Bardhaman district and Nadia district.

The house of the maternal uncle of Jagannath and Madhav (Jagai and Madhai, as they are popularly called) is reputed to be here.

Read more about this topic:  Katwa

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    To summarize the contentions of this paper then. Firstly, the phrase ‘the meaning of a word’ is a spurious phrase. Secondly and consequently, a re-examination is needed of phrases like the two which I discuss, ‘being a part of the meaning of’ and ‘having the same meaning.’ On these matters, dogmatists require prodding: although history indeed suggests that it may sometimes be better to let sleeping dogmatists lie.
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)

    Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)