Jagtai Choudhuries in media coverage (Part-1)
Coverage of Durga Puja of Jagtai Choudhury Bari in 'Anandabazar Patrika' (2006)
Jagtai (zamindari)
The Choudhuries of Jagtai: One of the historical sites where Rani Gaurangini's legacy is still present with the pride of its 300-year grandeur is Jagtai, which is currently a census town under Suti II CD block in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal. The early eighteenth-century feminist movement in Jagtai is the central theme. The folktale of Gaurangini Devi, who was married to Babu Saheb Lal Choudhury, into a zamindar family from Pabna in British India (now in Bangladesh), remains well-known in the regions of Nimtita, Jagtai, and even Aurangabad. Once upon a time, according to the locals, Gaurangini Devi was riding in a palanquin to bathe in the Ganga. However, she objected upon seeing the immoral presence of the Bojra (house boat) belonging to British male officers as soon as she arrived at the women's ghat. The governor of Bengal at the time was moved by the bravery of a Bengali woman and desired to present Gaurangini Devi with the zamindari of Jagtai village. She saw...
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