I said, “The history of Bengali New Year and calendar is somehow unclear and ... The fact that, it is called Bangla San or Sal, which are Arabic and Persian words respectively, suggests that ...

During the Mughal rule, land taxes were collected from Bengali people according to Islamic Hijri calendar. This calendar was a lunar calendar and its new year did not coincide with the solar ...

Given that the Islamic calendar is lunar, it did not coincide with the Bengali seasons, leading to much confusion. Akbar therefore asked his royal astronomer to devise a new calendar which merged ...

The Bengali New Year, or Pohela Boishakh ... A new calendar was created by combining the Lunar Islamic calendar and the Solar Hindu calendar, which then became known as Fasholi Shan (the harvest ...

On his orders, his revenue officer, Fateh Ullah Siraji, created the Bangla calendar based on the solar year and the Arabic Hijri year. At first, it was called Fasli calendar, but later ...

The history of Bengali New Year, or Poila Boishakh, is linked to the Mughal rulers. It is believed that during the Mughal rule, the Islamic Hijri calendar was in use, which was lunar-based ...

In an effort to align Islamic and regional Bengali calendars, Akbar devised a calendar that would suit the need of landowners and farmers, ensuring taxes could be paid in sync with agricultural cycle.

It is believed that during the Mughal rule, the collection of taxes was followed with the Islamic Hijri calendar ... this festival, and the Bengali calendar came to be known as the Bangabda.

Dividing a year into 12 months is an old practice according to the Hindu calendar. But during Mughal rule in India, Emperor Akbar ordered that the Bangla year be counted combining the Arabic calendar ...

(Shutterstock) The Bengali calendar is attributed to the 7th century king –Shashanka. It was later modified by Akbar for the purpose of tax collection. According to Historians, the lunar Islamic ...