Painam Village, Bangladesh

January 18, 2010
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Posted January 18, 2010

Wealthy Hindu cloth merchants built several dozen stately mansions in

Painam Village, an hour east of Dhaka, in the 19c. As religious tensions

rose among Hindus and Muslims, the owners were forced to abandon

them and move to safer quarters. For awhile they sent money to their

servants to keep the homes in good repair. Eventually, they realized

they would never return and the building fell into disrepair. The

government has boarded them up to keep out squatters but nothing is

being done to return them to their former splendor.

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