page_title: Buckland Bund
section_title: Present condition
hierarchical_section_title: Buckland Bund / Present condition
caption_attribution_description: Sadarghat Old Dhaka Bangladesh
context_page_description: Buckland Bund is a historically significant architectural creation situated by the Buriganga river bank of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was constructed by Charles Thomas Buckland in 1864 who was the commissioner of Dhaka during that period.
context_section_description: Buckland Bund was a very elegant riverfront of Dhaka in the early 1900s but has since deteriorated. Academic Partha Chatterjee describes it, in 2002, as "one of the most congested streets of the city. As one trudges through the slush and garbage, negotiating the fruit and vegetable vendors and endless stream of rickshaws, one's view of the river blocked off by an ugly wall and with no trees in sight, it is hard to imagine that the road had been built as an attractive riverfront boulevard." During the reign of Ayub Khan, the rights of the bund was transferred to the government from the public in 1963, the bund's maintenance and beauty started to deteriorate.
caption: Sadarghat Old Dhaka Bangladesh - panoramio
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