Lord Curzon Hall of Dhaka University

Curzon Hall meant to be a township hall, was named following Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, who laid its establishment in 1904. A year later on Bengal was partitioned and Dhaka became the capital of the recently formed region of East Bengal and Assam. Follow the cancellation of division in 1911 it was used as a foundation of Dhaka College, and after the establishment of Dhaka University in 1921, became part of the university's science section and continues as such. Laid out in a spacious and circumspectly maintained garden, this double storied brick building has a large middle hall, lateral wings on the east and west with several accommodations, and a incessant verandah on all sides.

One of the best examples of Dhaka's structural design, it is a happy mix together of European and Mughal fundamentals, mainly noticeable in the prognostic facade in the north which has together mascot and cusped arches.

The style joint usual art with current technology and functions and favored Mughal forms such as arches and domes, believed to have entered the Islamic world from the west. It marks the casting aside of veiled authority after the sepoy revolt of 1857, and India's transitory directly under the British Crown, looking for authority by connection to the Mughals. The red colour substituting meant for red building material, and the elaborate brackets, deep eaves, and domed veranda pavilions (chhatris), specially of the middle section are perceptibly evocative of the little but well-known Diwan-i-Khas in the fortress stronghold of Fatehpur Sikri, monarch akbar's capital connecting 1570 and 1585. Not only were both cities new capitals, but the conscious choice of the Fatehpur Sikri style may be explained by the fact that the British favoured Akbar as the wisest and most tolerant of all the Mughals, feeding into the perfect of their own role in India.

The Curzon Hall has attained a grand meaning in the history of the language movement. It was here, in 1948, the students of Dhaka University expressed their first negation to accept Mohammed Ali Jinnah's statement that Urdu unaided would be the state language of the then Pakistan.