History of Coxs Bazar The greater Chittagong breadth including Coxs Bazar was beneath the aphorism of Arakan Kings from the aboriginal 9th aeon until its acquisition by the Mughals in 1666 AD.When the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja was casual through the arresting breadth of the present day Coxs Bazar on his way to Arakan, he was admiring to the breathtaking and arresting adorableness of the place. He allowable his armament to affected there. His aggregation of one thousand palanquins chock-full there for some time.A abode called Dulahazara, acceptation one thousand palanquins, still exists in the area. Afterwards the Mughals, the abode came beneath the ascendancy of the Tipras and the Arakanese,followed by the Portuguese and again the British.The name Coxs Bazar originated from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain Hiram Cox who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki(todays Coxs Bazar) beginning afterwards Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal afterward the British East India Company Act in 1773.Captain Cox was abnormally mobilised to accord with a aeon continued battle amid Arakan refugees & bounded Rakhains at Palonki. The Captain fabricated cogent progress in rehabilitation of refugees in the area, but had died (in 1799) afore he could accomplishment his work. To admire his role in rehabilitation plan a market / exchange was accustomed and was called afterwards him as Coxs Bazar (market of Cox). Coxs Bazar than was aboriginal accustomed in 1854 and a city was constituted in 1869. After the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857) in 1857, the British East India Company was awful criticised and questioned on altruistic grounds, specially for its Opium barter cartel over the Indian Sub-Continent. However, afterwards its dissolution on 1 January 1874, all of the companys assets including its Armed Armament were acquired by the British Crown. Afterwards this celebrated yield over, Coxs Bazar was declared a commune of the Bengal Province beneath the British Crown. After the end of British aphorism in 1947, Coxs Bazar remained as a allotment of East Pakistan. Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim, the aboriginal Chairman (after ability from the British) of Coxs Bazar City accustomed the Tamarisk Forest forth the bank to draw day-tripper absorption in this boondocks and aswell to assure the bank from flat waves. He aswell donated abounding of his father-in-laws and his own acreage for establishing a Public Library and a Boondocks Hall for the town. He was aggressive to body Coxs Bazar as a day-tripper atom afterwards seeing beaches of Bombay and Karachi, and one of the antecedents in developing Coxs Bazar as such. He founded a Maternity Hospital, the Stadium and the arising arrangement by accretion grants from the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation through correspondence. Mr. T. H. Matthews, the arch of the Dacca Engineering College (1949~1954) was his acquaintance who had helped him in doing this. Architect Chandi Charan Das was the government civilian architect who had formed on all these projects. In 1959 the city was angry into a town committee. In 1961 the bygone Geological Survey of Pakistan accomplished analysis of radioactive minerals like monazite about the Coxs Bazar sea-beach breadth and a amount of adored abundant minerals were articular the aforementioned year.
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