of the 52 parganas of Sonargaon sarkar in Bengal subah during his administrative reforms in 1572–1580. During his time, Chand Rai and Kedar Rai were the Zamindars of Bikramapur. In the expeditions against Bara-Bhuiyans, Mughal Subahdar Man Singh killed Kedar Rai in early 1600s. In post-Aurangzeb era, during the time of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan, Bikrampur was divided into eight taluks – Bhagyakul, Sreenagar, Maijpara, Sinhapara, Taltala, Sirajdikhan, Louhajong and Baligaon. Each taluk was represented by one Zamindar. Muhammad Azim Khan became the Zamindar of Louhajong who held the title of "Khan Bahadur". Gobinda Prasad Roy became the Zamindar of Maijpara. Notable people Fakhruddin Ahmed (born 1940) Iajuddin Ahmed (1931–2012) Atiśa Dīpankara Śrījñāna ( CE) Asit Sen (1922–2001) Humayun Azad (1947–2004) Bhanu Bandopadhyay (1920–1983) Manik Bandopadhyay (19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956) Pratima Bandopadhyay (1934–2004) Atin Bandyopadhyay (1934–2019) Kedareswar Banerjee (1900–1975) Rameshwar Banerjee (8 February 1925 – 21 November 1945) Benoy Basu (1908–1930) Samaresh Basu (1924–1988) Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937) Nripen Chakraborty (1905–2004) Moushumi Chatterjee (born 26 April 1948) Sabitri Chatterjee (born 22 February 1937) Aghorenath Chattopadhyay Nishikanta Chattopadhyay Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty (1826–1874) Brojen Das (1927–1998) Chittaranjan Das (1870–1925) Durga Mohan Das (1841–1897) Jibanananda Das Narayan Debnath (born 1925) Dwarkanath Ganguly (1844–1898) Suhasini Ganguly (1909–1965) Kaliprosanna Ghosh (1843–1910) Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (1891–1983) Badal Gupta (1912–1930) Dinesh Gupta (1911–1931) Jogendranath Gupta (1883–1965) Chashi Nazrul Islam (1941–2015) Radhu Karmakar (1919–1993) Muhammad Hamidullah Khan (1938–2011) Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972) Imdadul Haq Milan (born 1955) Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay (1920–1989) Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935) Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) A. K. A. Firoze Noon (1946–2006) Kedar Ray Siddhartha Shankar Ray (1920–2010) Mokshadacharan Samadhyayi Laboni Sarkar Soham Swami (1858–1918) Sarada Ukil (1888–1940) See also Munshiganj Vihara References External links Historical Bikrampur Munshiganj District Buddhist sites in Bangladesh Historical regions in Bangladesh