Taraf

Taraf was a territory in the Sylhet region, ruled from Laskarpur. Formerly called Tungachal, it passed to the descendants of Syed Nasiruddin after he drove out Achak Narayan in 1304.

Taraf became a centre of Islamic learning, where Syed Israil wrote a book in 1534. Twipra later seized the territory, but Mughal forces under Islam Khan I stormed its fort in the early seventeenth century. The Syeds remained as zamindars; one received the Chowdhury title in 1770 and joined an anti-British rising in 1799.