The greater Chittagong breadth including Cox's Bazar was
beneath the aphorism of Abakan Kings from the aboriginal 9th aeon until its
acquisition by the Mughals in 1666 AD.When the Mughal Prince Shah Shuja was
casual through the arresting breadth of the present day Cox's Bazar on his way
to Arakan, he was admiring to the breathtaking and arresting adorableness of
the place. He allowable his armament to affected there. His aggregation of one
thousand palanquins chock-full there for some time.
A abode called Dulahazara,
acceptation "one thousand palanquins," still exists in the area.
Afterwards the Mughals, the abode came beneath the ascendancy of the Tipras and
the Arakanese,followed by the Portuguese and again the British.The name Cox's
Bazar originated from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain
Hiram Cox who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki(today's Cox's
Bazar) beginning afterwards Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal
afterward the British East India Company Act in 1773.Captain Cox was abnormally
mobilised to accord with a aeon continued battle amid Arakan refugees &
bounded Rakhains at Palonki. The Captain fabricated cogent progress in
rehabilitation of refugees in the area, but had died (in 1799) afore he could
accomplishment his work. To admire his role in rehabilitation plan a market /
exchange was accustomed and was called afterwards him as Cox's Bazar (market of
Cox). Cox's Bazar than was aboriginal accustomed in 1854 and a city was
constituted in 1869. After the Sepoy Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857) in 1857,
the British East India Company was awful criticised and questioned on
altruistic grounds, specially for its Opium barter cartel over the Indian
Sub-Continent. However, afterwards its dissolution on 1 January 1874, all of
the company's assets including its Armed Armament were acquired by the British
Crown. Afterwards this celebrated yield over, Cox's Bazar was declared a
commune of the Bengal Province beneath the British Crown. After the end of
British aphorism in 1947, Cox's Bazar remained as a allotment of East Pakistan.
Captain Advocate Fazlul Karim, the aboriginal Chairman (after ability from the
British) of Cox's Bazar City accustomed the Tamarisk Forest forth the bank to
draw day-tripper absorption in this boondocks and aswell to assure the bank
from flat waves. He aswell donated abounding of his father-in-law's and his own
acreage for establishing a Public Library and a Boondocks Hall for the town. He
was aggressive to body Cox's Bazar as a day-tripper atom afterwards seeing
beaches of Bombay and Karachi, and one of the antecedents in developing Cox's
Bazar as such. He founded a Maternity Hospital, the Stadium and the arising
arrangement by accretion grants from the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation
through correspondence. Mr. T. H. Matthews, the arch of the Dacca Engineering
College (1949~1954) was his acquaintance who had helped him in doing this.
Architect Chandi Charan Das was the government civilian architect who had
formed on all these projects. In 1959 the city was angry into a town committee.
In 1961 the bygone Geological Survey of Pakistan accomplished analysis of
radioactive minerals like monazite about the Cox's Bazar sea-beach breadth and
a amount of adored abundant minerals were articular the aforementioned year.
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