Old Dhaka

Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia with a population of over 12million. Dhaks is called The City of mosques. In the mughal era in 17th century it was known as Jahangir Nagar. It was a provincial capital and centre of the worldwide muslim trade. The modern city, however, was developed chiefly under British rule in the 19th century, and became the second-largest city in Bengal after Calcutta (presently Kolkata). After the partition of Bengal in 1905, Dhaka became the capital of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam but lost its status as a provincial capital again after the partition was annulled in 1911. After the partiton of India in 1947, Dhaka became the administrative capital of East Pakistan, and later, in 1972, the capital of an independent Bangladesh.