Mymensingh district comprising the subdivisions of Kishorganj, Netrokona, Tangail, Jamalpur and Mymensingh Sadar was formed on the 1st May of 1787. The borders of this district had the Garo Hills and Goalpara district of Assam on the north; Pabna, Bagura and Rangpur districts on the west; Dhaka district on the south; and Sylhet and Comilla districts on the east. Its area was 6,361 square miles. The British rulers named the district Mymensingh during its formation. Previous to that, the areas under this district had different names at different times. Kishorganj was made a district by the Bangladesh Government in 1982. As long as the families of Rajani Kanta and Naliniprava were at Kishorganj, it was only a subdivisional town. 

Nirad C Chaudhuri, the famous author of 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian' wrote in the above book 'Kishorganj was a normal specimen of its class - one among a score of collections of tin-and-mat huts or sheds, comprising courts, offices, schools, shops and residential dwellings, which British administration had raised up in the green and brown spaces of East Bengal. It had come into existence as a municipal township in the 'sixties of the last century (the autobiography was first published in 1951) and was, in the terminology of British local government in India, a subdivisional headquarters, which meant that it was an administrative unit next to the principal town of the district where the Collector resided.' He further wrote 'The town had grown around and along a visible thread, a three-stranded thread, which was formed by a little river with roads running along its two banks. We inherited the tradition that the river once had its day, but what we saw was only its impoverished old age. Except during the rains, when it was full to the brim and shining across its whole breadth of some two hundred yards between one road-bound bank and another, it was an emaciated channel where the water never was more than waist deep and in most places only knee-deep. But we loved the stream. To compare small things with great, it was our Nile. Our town was the gift of the river.' Chaudhuri continued 'The town of Kishorganj was divided into two nearly equal halves by the river. But we did not think equally well of both. Actually, we were openly contemptuous of the other bank. This was not egoism, a tribute of vanity to our own presence on this bank, but an indication of the spirit of the age of our boyhood, which was vastly different from the spirit of the present or contemporary age. The bazaars and all the important shops were on the other bank, which meant that it had the formidable backing of economics. Yet we could afford to look down upon it on the strength of religious, cultural, political, and aesthetic considerations. The temple of the goddess Kali, the most important Muslim prayer hall in the town, the Idgah where the annual Id prayers were said, the prayer hall of the Brahmos or reformed monotheistic Hindus, were all on our bank. So were the schools, the cricket ground, the public library, the government dispensary, and the hospital. And so were the courts, the treasury, the police station, the post office, and the dak bungalow. And above all, we had not spoilt our river front. The road running along the river on our side had been kept as a sort of strand.' Rajani Kanta Sarkar built his house on this bank at a location hardly two minutes' walk from the road running along the river Narashunda. The locality where he built his house was called Solakia. All the important places of the town mentioned by Chaudhuri were close to Rajani Kanta's house. There were three secondary level schools at Kishorganj - Kishorganj High English School and Azimuddin High School for the boys; and Sarojini Vidya Niketan for the girls. Later a college named Gurudayal College was established on the other bank for graduation level education. Chaudhuri wrote of the other bank 'Certainly, we would never have set foot of our free will on the other bank had it not been for one or two things. The first of them was the Quarter-to-Four-Anna House (Poune-char-anar Bari). .......The house at Kishorganj I am speaking about belonged to a land-owner who had come to inherit a quarter-to-four-anna share, or fifteen-sixty-fourths, of a big estate founded late in the eighteenth century or early in the nineteenth, and therefore it had acquired the name Quarter-to-Four-Anna House.' About this house, Chaudhuri continued 'The first attraction of the house was a tank which supplied the clearest and coolest drinking water to be found in the town. ...But the house drew us children for something more important in our eyes than any question of water. In its grounds was held the annual car festival (Rathajatra) of Krishna and the fair which accompanied it. .. The car festival takes place in the monsoon season.' Apart from this house, Chaudhuri agreed 'I now come to a thing by virtue of which the other bank scored decisively over us. This was the great fair of the Swing Festival (Jhulan) of Krishna, held on the southern outskirts of the town. This fair did something more than simply redeem the other bank in our eyes, it drew us irresistibly. With us it also drew almost everybody within fifteen to twenty miles of us. It was held annually during September and October. To it came not only all the local traders, all the craftsmen of eastern Mymensing, but also big merchants from Dacca and Narayanganj.' 

About infrastructures, electrical power was not available at Kishorganj. People depended on kerosene lanterns after sunset. There were two cinema halls equipped with diesel generator sets to generate their own power. Apart from the cinema halls, there were two auditoriums for stage shows, one at Akharabazar and another at Kishorganj H E School. There were manually operated public tube-wells at different locations of the town but no piped water. There were a network of roads linking different localities of the town, but none of the roads were metalled. Kishorganj was connected with Mymensingh, Dacca, Calcutta and other parts of East Bengal by the railways. A new township was coming up near the Kishorganj railway station. Transport available at Kishorganj for the public were rickshaws, horse-drawn carts, palanquins and boats during the rainy season. There were two markets - one at each bank. 

The house Rajani Kanta built at Kishorganj was on a rectangular plot of land measuring roughly about 30,000 square feet. As you enter the premises from the main road located along its eastern boundary, there was a garden on the left and a shed made of tin sheets on the right. Rajani Kanta used it as his office when he was practicing as a lawyer. It was partly partitioned with space on the other side of the partition for accommodating a bed. At the end of the garden on the left, there was a bigger shed made of tin sheets. It was also partitioned into two rooms - one used as studyroom and another as bedroom. Adjacent to this shed, there was a hut used for dehusking of paddy brought from Hazipur. Along the northern boundary in line with the office shed, further inside was a masonry building with sloping tin-roof with false ceiling underneath. This was the main bedroom. Adjacent to this main bedroom was the kitchen. There was a cowshed further inside, and a latrine behind it. The hand-pump type tube-well was installed near the kitchen. There was hardly any open space. The entire plot of land except for the building/sheds was planted with trees, vegetable plants and flower plants. All kinds of fruit trees were planted along the boundaries of the living areas. The backyard of the house on the western side was a jungle of bamboo clumps. The layout of the kitchen, tube-well and latrine was changed as the family grew. There was a public tube-well installed on the other side of the road opposite the S-E corner of the plot. Male members and children of the family used public tanks for bathing. The female members used tube-well water for washing and bathing. The staple food for the family was rice and its total annual requirement was supplied from the harvest at Hazipur. Sackful of mangoes and jackfruits used to be loaded on horseback at Hazipur every year and sent to Kishorganj for the family's consumption. A good share of the family's requirement of vegetables was available from the vegetables grown at its premises. As Rajani Kanta's children left Kishorganj on marriage or in pursuit of education/jobs, the efforts on gardening slowed down. There was a definite shift in life style when Rajani Kanta discontinued his career as a lawyer, and joined the faculty of Gurudayal College. 

Rajani Kanta's grandson Dipak completed his secondary level education in 1962 and from then on winding up of the Kishorganj set up was initiated. By 1965, Rajani Kanta left for Dacca to live with his second son Sisir Kumar. 

Rajani Kanta's wife Naliniprava had two sisters Labanyaprava and Anilprava. Labanyaprava was married to Kalikishore Deb of Katiarchar and Anilprava was married to Bharat Chandra Roy of Puthipara. Katiarchar and Puthipara were in true sense suburbs of Kishorganj town. 

As mentioned earlier, there were two roads along the river Narashunda on its two banks. The two roads were connected at Gourangabazar and Akharabazar by two bridges. Akharabazar was west of Gourangabazar. From Rajani Kanta's house, there were many roads leading to Akharabazar for crossing the river and then turning right westward to take the road along its southern bank to Katiarchar. By any standard, Katiarchar was a village but very close to the facilities available at Kishorganj. Katiarchar could be reached on foot or on bicycle or by rickshaw or horse-drawn cart or by ferry services during the rainy season. Kalikishore was an employee in a tea garden at Upper Assam. He died in 1928 at the age of only 35 because of lack of proper medical treatment facilities at the tea gardens. Labanyaprava came back to Katiarchar on his death. Kalikishore's brother was a Government medical doctor at Katiarchar. There was a primary school run by the Deb family. For education beyond primary level, local people had to depend on the facilities available at Kishorganj. For drinking water, they depended on both well and tube-well. 

While Katiarchar was located towards the southwest direction of Kishorganj town, Puthipara was located towards the north. Puthipara could be reached on foot or on bicycle or on rickshaw or on horse-drawn cart. Like Katiarchar, Puthipara was also located by the side of the river Narashunda. Because of its proximity to Kishorganj, infrastructural facilities available at Puthipara were minimum. Bharat Chandra Roy's house comprised of four tin sheds with a tank in front of its premises. The environment of the premises was green with trees and plants. Bharat Chandra was a very respectable person in the village. 

Hazipur, a remote village on the bank of a tributary of the river Brahmaputra, was located about 13 miles (21 Km) west of Kishorganj via Husainpur (see map) by a typical unmetalled rural road, which turned slushy during the rainy season. Another approach was from Ghafargaon (see map) railway station. Ghafargaon was connected by the railways with Dacca and Mymensingh. Hazipur was about 5 miles (8 Km) from Ghafargaon. Hazipur could be reached from Kishorganj on foot. Otherwise, transports available were bicycles, rickshaws and horse-drawn carts. Palanquins were used for transport of brides, aged women and invalids. The approach to Hazipur village was from the Husainpur-Diwanganj road. It was a Muslim majority village with only about a dozen Hindu families. The Sarkar household used to be called as 'Barabari' because of the family's vast property and its emphasis on education. Big tin sheds were used for dwelling purposes. For visitors and outsiders, separate sheds outside the family's main dwelling areas were built. There were also store sheds for storage of jute and other crops. Hazipur had two guesthouses for passers-by who needed food and shelter. Cowsheds were there for the cattle owned by the families. There were two ponds and a tank for the use of the families living there. At the rear of the house, there was a jungle of bamboo clumps. A small pond was dug there for sanitary purposes. Another pond was dug at a central location of the village for maximum use. A third one, a tank, was dug near the crossing of Husainpur-Diwanganj road not far from the tax collector's office. It was well maintained as a part of the family's social services as its water was for public consumption for drinking purposes. A tube-well was installed near the tax collector's office later for the public. There was a masonry structure on the bank of the tank in memory of one of the ancestors. The area adjacent to this pond was full of fruit-bearing trees. Rajani Kanta's younger brother Sachindra was a medical doctor, who was also the headmaster of the village's government primary school. There was a secondary level high school at Diwanganj 1.5 miles north of Hazipur. People of Hazipur also depended for their provisions on Diwanganj open market. Traders and sellers assembled there twice a week. 

Singrail was another village about 10 miles (16 Km) from Hazipur via Gangatia. Singrail could also be reached from Mushuli railway station on foot, the distance being about 3 miles (5 Km). Rajani Kanta's mother Nityamoyi hailed from Singrail. Nityamoyi's father Nabakishore Roy was the teacher of the local primary school. As such, his house used to be called 'Masterbari'. His house comprised of a number sheds with a tank in front of the main dwelling shed and another, a pond, at the back. Nabakishore's elder son, Prasanna, was a qualified government doctor whose area of operation also covered other villages around Singrail. Prasanna used to move around on horseback or on bicycle. Like other East Bengal villages, Singrail was also a Muslim majority village, Hindus comprising of about 40% of the village's total population. There was a small Kali temple at this village. Infrastructures for proper living were not available at this village. Students had to go to Nandail Road (see map) for secondary level education or to Mushuli for middle level education up to Class VIII. Provisions for day-to-day living were to be procured from Nandail Road or Nilganj (see map). Female members of the family moved on palanquins as other modes of transport were not available. Dr Prasanna Kumar Roy was a very respectable person of the village. Surendra, his only brother, died at an early age leaving his children under his care. Prasanna had no issue. The children of Surendra did very well in their professional lives. 

Rajani Kanta's wife Naliniprava hailed from Banagram, a village within Kishorganj subdivision. Since Banagram was only about 1 mile (1.6 Km) from Gachihata railway station (see map), the distance up to the village could be covered on foot. Banagram was relatively a better category of village. There were a high school for aspiring students, a medical centre, a big bazaar for day-to-day provisions and a permanent place for celebrating Durga Puja annually. Nabin Chandra Roy built a nice masonry building with tin roof for his family. There were other tin sheds also. There was a tank in front of the house for bathing and washing purposes. Nabin Chandra was a wealthy and renown person in the village although his place of work was a remote tea garden in Upper Assam. He had many relatives in the village. He helped them in all possible ways to establish themselves for living decently.