Madaripur

Madaripur is a town in Dhaka Division in south-central Bangladesh and the headquarters of Madaripur District. It is named for Shah Madar, a Sufi saint who spread Islam in the region and is remembered as Hazrat Badruddin Shah Madar, a practitioner of the fifteenth century. In ancient times the area was known as Idilpur, a settlement of the Chandradweep Kingdom, and its first historical name was Fatehabad. The name Madaripur received administrative recognition in 1854 with the creation of subdivisions and police stations. Under British rule it was a land of movements and struggles, including the Faraizi movement led by Haji Shariatullah, and its people took part in the Language Movement of 1952 and the war of independence in 1971.