Rampasha

Rampasha
Village
Location of Rampasha has shown within the map of Bangladesh
Rampasha

Location of Rampasha in Bangladesh

Coordinates: 24°51′29″N 91°43′40″E / 24.857941°N 91.727728°E / 24.857941; 91.727728Coordinates: 24°51′29″N 91°43′40″E / 24.857941°N 91.727728°E / 24.857941; 91.727728
Country Bangladesh
Division Sylhet
Upazila Sylhet
Union Council Biswanath

Rampasha is a Union Council of Biswanath Upazila of Sylhet District in north-east Bangladesh. It is about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the east of Bioragibazar. The Union Council office of Rampasha is situated in the east side of the village. Rampasha is famous for being the ancestral home of Dewan Ali Raja, a zamidar and a songwriter father of Hason Raja, a Bengali poet, mystic philosopher, and folksongs writer and composer who gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel Prize laureate, poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University.

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