....to trade prostitutes.
"VognoDuut186" <don@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Trading History
> 400 years of commercial Dhaka
> Sayeda Akter
>
> Big coal engine wooden ****ps leaving the jetty on Buriganga,
filled
> with famous fine Muslin cloths, jutes, blue and soaps to the way from
> Mediterranean Sea to Europe, Indian Sub-Continent to Jeddah and Basra in
> Middle East via Padma, Meghna river.
>
> Not only through the river, Muslin, jutes, blue and soap were also
> ex****ted through terrain routes, alias 'Silk Line' route through the
> mountains of China and India to Europe via Lebon, today's Lebanon, with
> using camels, horses and donkeys as vehicles.
>
> People were then used to do business either in trading, meaning
goods
> against goods or in gold, silver and cowry, the shell of the cowries
> formerly used as money in parts of Africa and Asia.
>
> It's no tale. All about the ancient Dhaka.
>
> This year Dhaka observes its 400th anniversary and Dhaka Chamber
of
> Commerce and Industries (DCCI), in association with Bangladesh Asiatic
> Society, have taken an initiative to write down the Commercial History
of
> Dhaka.
>
> An 11- member committee has been formed on this regard to oversee
the
> regular activities of the project and arrange regular seminar and
workshop
> to review the history written so far.
>
> Professor Dr. Sirajul Islam, president of Bangladesh Asiatic
Society,
> said, 400 years ago, while Dhaka started growing the attention of the
rulers
> as an im****tant city, it was already a famous city for Muslin and jutes,
> leather, cotton, bell metal, pewter and brass.
>
> Dhaka grew as a metropolitan in 1608 under the Mughal rule, the
city
> was then known as Jahangir Nagar, named by Mughal Emperor Jahangir and
was
a
> commercially im****tant city of that time.
>
> Afterwards, day came when Muslin was no longer in existence in the
> world except in museums and the city's golden fiber jute also lost its
good
> days.
>
> Prof Islam said, after witnessing lots of political and economical
> adversity, the 400 years old city is now the center of political,
economic
> and cultural life in Bangladesh.
>
> He said now the city has the most diverse economy amongst
Banglade****
> cities and has seen a modernization of industrialization, trans****t,
> communications and public works.
>
> With huge transformations, Dhaka has grown accustomed to be a
> commercial city with leather industry, cotton, bell metal and pewter,
> button, gl*****, printing and publication, ceramics tiles and most
> im****tantly ready made garments (RMG).
>
> Delwar Hasan, editor of the 600 pages book, said the job of
> ac***ulating all the oral history and information from other historical
> references is very tough.
>
> "It is tough to ac***ulate information from different sources,
many
of
> which are oral sources, but it will be very useful for the people
interested
> to know about the rich commercial history of Dhaka and obviously the
next
> generation," he said.
>
> "The project has another objective to make a guideline for future
> entrepreneurs and business initiators of the country to make their plan
> using this resources," he added.
>
> Hossain Khaled, president of DCCI, said the initiative was taken
to
> remark the 400 anniversary of Dhaka and 50th anniversary of DCCI.
>
> "We found that there is no such written history on Dhaka's
commerce
> and industry, which could help people to know about the rich history of
the
> city," he said.
>
> "DCCI decided to take an initiative to record all the written
> histories that we found in different history books and the histories we
> heard from pioneer businessmen and entrepreneurs," he added.
>
> He said the project of writing the history was started in November
> 2007 and DCCI has allocated an amount of Tk 20 lakh for its English
version,
> and the Bengali version -- that is yet to start -- would get the same
> budget.
>
> The commercial history of Dhaka would be uncovered this October.
>
>
>
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