 At that time the area of Dhaka was 20.72 square kilometres with a population of around 52,000.Buckland Bund was constructed under a scheme by the then City Commissioner Charles Thomas Buckland in 1864 to protect Dhaka from flooding and river erosion.In 1860, the first printing press "Bangala Jantra" was set up in Dhaka and also Dhaka's first periodical "Kabita Kusumabali" was founded in the same year.