Rain forests, tea estates, sub-tropical hills and beautiful river valleys are the things that define Sylhet. Ancient name of it was 'Srihatta' which in Sanskrit means a prosperous trading center. Currently, Sylhet is the 5th largest city of the country. There are two correlations between United Kingdom and Sylhet. The first one is of direct ruling incorporated with few upraising while the second one is of pure migration from the third world to first. In the 17th century, when British conquered Indian subcontinent, they saw Syhlet as an area of strategic importance in its war against the than Burma, currently Myanmar. In 1778, the East India Company appointed Robert Lindsay as the 'Collector' of Sylhet. He was allegedly a collector with ‘low moral values’. Locals did not have good bond with him. In 1781, a severe flood wiped out crops and killed one third of the population in the region. The locals in Sylhet blamed the British rulers for not doing enough, which l...
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