Bangla house

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Bangla house (Bengali: বাংলা ঘর) is the name of a type of guest house typically found in South Asia, especially in Bengal.

Usually it is a separate detached house with one or two rooms in front a person's home which may have more than four rooms. It is especially found in the countryside where there is a lack of hotels.

Contrasted with guest houses found in other parts of the world, Bengali culture proscribes that traveling guests live free-of-charge in a private person's home (in the Bengal house). Guests are kept in a separate detached house because of cultural modesty and privacy.

The zamindar family of Teota maintained a famous "Bangla house" called the atithi-sala [1] Muhammad Mohsin, a famous philanthropist also set up many guest houses for the traveling poor.[2]

See also

  1. ↑ http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/Z_0024.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/twelvemenofbenga00bradiala/twelvemenofbenga00bradiala_djvu.txt


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