Karpus Mahal

Karpas Mahal takes its name from cotton, the produce for which the wooded hills east of Chittagong were known. Chakma chiefs governed communities in this upland country and dealt with merchants from the Bengal plains. In the early eighteenth century a Chakma ruler arranged to provide cotton tribute to the Mughal authorities in return for trade. The name came to designate the tribute-paying country, where relations with the plains coexisted with the authority of local hill leaders.