Kathgola Palace - Historical place museum in Murshidabad - Murshidabad, India

A magnificent palace which is so beautiful that is beyond words to describe. You can feed the fishes. You will feel like sitting beside the pond for hours. The museum has a beautiful collection of ancient artefacts. The Jain temple inside really a treat to the eyes. This is the palace where "Ek Je Chilo Raha" was shot. Overall, this is a must visit place in Bengal.

Beautiful place. If you are in Murshidabad, then it is a must visit place. Beautiful palace and garden. We visited on Sunday , that's why it was little bit crowded. Otherwise you'll enjoy to visit the whole area. There is a Jain temple within this area, you can visit this too.

We have visited this place on jan 2022. Its a really nice place to visit once in Murshidabad. The property houses a beautiful garden, a bungalow that is transformed into museum, a jain temple, two huge ponds and few more historically important structure.

This palace is one of the best attractions of Murshidabad tour. This historically famous palace has many adeventurous things to show. Thus palace is surrounded by a small pond in front side and a zoo in right corner side. Beside there are a ancient tunnel. This tunnel is said to connect wuth the house of Jagat Seth. But now filled with water. The whole area is surrounded by big walls.

This one is a must visit for your Murshidabad tour. From the name of Kath Golap this palaced was named Kathgola palace. One of most beautiful palace of Murshidabad and West Bengal. This palace was built buy the looters of bengal. Many cinemas were flimed here. The most famous one is ek ye chil raajaa / Ticket policy is bad. You need to buy separate ticket to visit the first floor. Taking guide is always recommend to know the actual history of the palace.

If you have ever been to Murshidabad you should visit this place. Kathgola Palace is a historical building belonging to the Dugar family at Kathgola in the Murshidaabad-Jiaganj CD block of Murshidaabad. There is also a zoo and rose garden here all very well maintained.

Very good place. This palace is currently run by 7th generation of jain family.Several movies have been shot here. Old furniture is kept here. There is a small zoo. if you visit Murshidabad then it is a must visit place.

It will take minimum 1.5 hrs to tour the whole campus, otherwise sky is the limit. We entered at 15:30, left at 17:30, but I was feeling to stay for few more hours . Kathgola Bagan Bari was a center of entertainment during the british period. Some say the place had wide gardens of kathgolap (kaatthgolaap) from which the name came. Others believe this place had a wood processing plant, hence the name kathgola (Bengali 'Kathgola' means, a wood processing plant) As u enter through the Nahabat gate, there is a small forest type area with installations of four men riding horse. They are supposed to be the Rajasthan originated Jain businessman who came here in 1780 & took lease of this 32 bigha area at Rs.1200/- from the then Nawab . Their names were Lakshmipat, Jagatpat, Dhanapat & Chatrapat Singh Dugar. You will find matriculation certificates of their decendants inside the palace. Kathgola Baganbari construction started 23 years after the death of Siraj-ud-Daulah (1757) Next u buy entry ticket costing Rs30/- for the whole campus, zoo, temple & ground floor of the palace. As u enter the paid area, on the right side is a zoo, with goose, a macaw, a talking parrot, some other birds, rabbits, pigeons, etc. On the left side is a gate with a lion on top, a multi-storeyed stepwell called 'baori' and stairs leading further downwards, believed to be the entrance to tunnels. One tunnel is believed to lead to House of Jagat Seth (made for illegal trade, exchange of money), while another tunnel is expected to lead to Bhagirathi river, primarily used to transfer wood into barges at night. The evidence of this tunnel being connected to Bhagirathi is, during high tide & low tide, the water level of the tunnel used to increase/decrease along with the river water level. After a massive flood, the tunnel became blocked by silt deposits and the increase/decrease of water level is no longer observed. Next one would come across the Palace. Take a walk around the palace to admire the structure & beauty. There is a square pond (Nawabi Sarobar) full of colorful fishes infront of the palace. (if you wish to feed the fish, take some marie biscuits with u, the person selling there takes more price ). The pond has four marble structure at four corners and stairs. Jains don't eat fish so they used to keep them as pets. A small stage for dance performance is present at the opposite side of the pond. A Pay & Use Toilet is also present there. Enter the ground floor and take a tour. You can enter as many times as it is covered in your ticket. The first floor would cost another Rs20/-. The stairs seemed to be suspended from the wall without having any pillar support. The balcony on the first floor offers great view, but beware of the pooping pigeons. Photography allowed in this balcony. Behind the palace, there is an abandoned house. It homed visitors & dancers during Nawab era. Next walk towards the Jain temple, u will find statues of Gods . On the right side, there is an elevated stage called 'Naach Mahal', where dancers like Hira bai used to perform for the royals here at a cost of 5000 gold coins per hour. The stage was believed to be surrounded by Belgium glass (which were typically one way glass, people sitting inside the stage could see outside activities, but outside people couldn't see inside activities) which are broken now & some poles are present, where gas light was hung as there was no electricity during old days. There is some cemetary beside, exclusively for the fishes. Jains were vegans and kept fish as pets . They wealthy wives used to attach gold ornaments (sonaar nth) to the fish & when the fish died, they used to bury the fish. Visit the Jain temple & enjoy a beautiful evening at the Palace compound.