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The world Largest Village

Baniachong an unusually large village settlement in habiganj district about 60 km south-west of sylhet proper. The local people take pride in styling the village as the largest rural settlement in Asia, some believe, in the world. However, both spatially and demographically, the village is so large that it is divided, for local government, into four union parishads. The village is Muslim predominantly and its population is about one hundred thousand. Historically, Baniachong was owned by Abed Reza, a Muslim zamindar in the seventeenth century. He ruled the village during the late nawabi period. It may be pointed out that unlike other districts of Bengal where the zamindars and talukdars mainly controlled land, land tenure in Sylhet was characterised by the predominance of tiny landholders called chowdhuries.

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