It is located about half a km South-East of Mahimapur (modern Nashipur), a town in West Bengal, India just north of Murshidabad, the capital of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa during the reign of the Nawabs of Murshidabad.
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the newly emerging urban Indian elites in Calcutta including notable grandees such as the Tagore and Mullick clans, with both of which he enjoyed close personal and financial relationships and who, flush with the economic gains made by Hindu merchant classes under British rule, were spearheading the Bengal Renaissance,