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| Keywords: Shiva temple, Painam, Sonargaon 1872.jpg en Photograph of the Shiva temple at Painam Sonargaon Bangladesh from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections taken by W Brennand in 1872 Painam Panam or Panamnagar is situated in Bangladesh close to the banks of the Meghna River 15 miles east of Dacca Painam was perhaps the residence of the early Muslim governors of Eastern Bengal whose capital was at Sonargaon a thriving port and commercial centre nearby The city was later a centre of trade in cotton fabrics carried out by the East India Company This view looks along a street of thatched huts towards the temple The temple is briefly mentioned in J Wise Notes on Sunargaon Eastern Bengal Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal vol XLIII part I Calcutta 1874 In the one street of Painam is a modern and very ugly temple of Shiva ornamented with numerous pinnacles 1872 http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/s/019pho001000s27u02735000 html Brennand W Custom license marker 2013 01 05 PD-Bangladesh Uploaded with UploadWizard Brennand W Old vintage photographs of Bangladesh | ||||
