Purush Pal

Purush Pal is a village. The name of the purush Pal Village derived from Poresh Pal. Poresh Pal was a group of Hindu Religious (Pal) tribe’s name, who used to live in this village before around 13th century.

Wikipedia web link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purush_pal
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** Brief Introduction / History about Purush Pal Village **


Purush Pal:


There two different traditional anecdotal accounts as to how the name Purushpal became into existence and how the village was formed.

First, it is believed that in Middle Ages, a group of Brahman men, i.e. purush, came from northern parts of India and established a settlement, which eventually developed into a village. As it was predominantly a settlement of purush, i.e. men; their zealous effort to befriend people from neighbouring villages, particularly women from different tribes and caste earned them the reputation of friend, i.e. paal; thus their settlement attained the name of Purushpaal, deriving from the compound of words purush + paal = Purushpaal.

Second, the name Purush Pal came from Paresh Paul, who was the founder of the village by the end of the 13th century. As Hazrat Shah Jalal arrived in Sylhet in 1303 CE with his 360 dervish disciples, the local inhabitants of Bangladesh, particularly from animist and pagan denomination, had begun to accept Islam as their region. Likewise, the people of Pareshpaul embraced Islam as their religion; this way, most of the village inhabitants became Muslim. However, a sizeable village population remained Hindu, who sold their village homestead after 1947 and migrated to urban parts of the country, mainly to the city of Sylhet, Maulvi Bazar, Srimangal, Sunamganj and Chhatak. It is said that some of the wealthy Hindus have migrated to Shillong, Karimganj and Kolkata in India. There is no written record as to where the village pioneers, Paul Family, has migrated and settled.


Location:


Village Purush Pal are located to Union: Mathiura Bazar, Upazila: Beani Bazar,City: Sylhet, Bangladesh. It is a lovely village. It is the last west side village (border of) Beani Bazar Upazila..wikimapia.org/#lat=24.8207824&lon=92.1599293&z=16&l=0&... is located to east side of sylhet .. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.8957794&lon=91.8860435&z=13&l=0&... city.


Village Description:


It is one of the beautiful villages in Bangladesh. It has very beautiful natural sceneries which attract lot of peoples. Peoples are Purush Pal are very friendly and socialize.There are around 5 Thousands peoples / around 200 families living in this village. Because of Purush Pal quite large village and therefore it is divided by three parts, called Mazor (middle or west) Para/Part, Pubor (east) Pare/Part & Kuna (south) Para/Part. Purush Pal Now 100% peoples are practicing Islam religious, Masha'Allah - Allah has willed it. Most of the peoples are living aboard. From the total population around 40% peoples are living in UK and around 10% peoples are living in different countries of the world.



Behind Development:


The true development behind of the Purush Pal village. The residence of Purush Pal who is living in the UK,their thinking about develops of Purush Pal or their help was very important. In a word, without their thinking or help Purush Pal would not be a nice and well established village.


Educational Institutions:


There are one Primary school, called Purush Pal wasiria Goverment Primary School..wikimapia.org/#lat=24.8267564&lon=92.1030504&z=16&l=0&... , One Hafiziya Madrasa called Purush Pal Hafiziya Madrasa .. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.827519&lon=92.103332&z=16&l=0&m=... , One Jamae Masjid called Purush Pal Jamae Masjid.. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.827519&lon=92.103332&z=16&l=0&m=... and other two small Masjid called Kunapara Masjid.. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.827519&lon=92.103332&z=16&l=0&m=... & Pubor Bari/Part Masjid.. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.8282121&lon=92.1050406&z=16&l=0&... in Purush Pal.


Graveyards/Cemeteries:

There are three big Graveyards/Cemeteries and one small Graveyard/Cemetery in Purush Pal.Those are Mazor Para Cemetery.. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.8281537&lon=92.1053517&z=16&l=0&... . Kunapara Cemetry.. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.8280271&lon=92.1032166&z=16&l=0&... And Pubor Para Graveyard /Cementry.. wikimapia.org/#lat=24.8260602&lon=92.1005344&z=16&l=0&... .The small Graveyard/Cemetery is located to east side of Purush Pal Wasiria Goverment Primary School,It is Late Mr Hasir Ali Family Graveyard.


Occupation of residents:


People in Purush Pal main profession is organic food farmer. Every season they cultivate lots of organic crops.



It is a lovely village to live in. Even though lots of peoples are living aboard but they never forgot to visit Purush Pal.

> Please note: This brief history/information is written for the educational purpose of Purush Pal future generations. If there any mistakes on this article & would like to share some idea or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact me with below emails.

Many thanks for your time and visiting.


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Article Contributed by: - Eng Ebadur Rahman (Son of Hazi Md Johir Ali).

E-mail: www.ebadur@gmail.com , Website: www.travelpod.ca/members/ebadur