Tajpur

Tajpur gave its name to a Mughal sarkar in northern Bengal. The district extended across the country east of the Mahananda into western Dinajpur and contained twenty-nine revenue units, or mahals, in the imperial fiscal records. In the seventeenth century Tajpur formed part of the wide Dinajpur zamindari held by Raja Sukdeva, alongside Ghoraghat, Barbakabad and Panjor. Its place in the records reflects the organisation of land and revenue across the northern plains.