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English Khoksa
As the story goes, the name Khoksa comes from a sage named Khoka Shah. Others hold that it derives from a tree called khoksa — long extinct in this area, though the tree reportedly still exists in some parts of the Rangpur region.
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The Kali Puja temple at Khoksa in Kushtia is a place of Sanatani devotion and a religious tourist centre for the people of the area, including the Hindu community, free of religious and caste discrimination. Around the annual Puja and fair a special kind of atmosphere is created among local people of all classes and professions. The rituals of the Puja begin on the Amavasya (new-moon night) of Magh. For the occasion a magnificent Kali idol of dazzling beauty, with a huge body seven and a half cubits long, is made. By family tradition the local idol artists Sukumar Biswas and Nimai Biswas, along with their three assistants, have been making the idol. On the occasion of the Kali Puja a fair is held for a fortnight on the temple grounds. Nearly fifty thousand people from home and abroad gather at this fair.
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It is no longer possible today to determine when, in some remote past, Khoksa and Khoksa's Kali were born, and how, in the course of coming to know each other, they one day became one. Yet from how far mankind has advanced in this search for information, a rough idea of Khoksa thana and of this Kali Puja can be gained. For a long time Khoksa has been a thana of historic culture. Diverse cultural currents have flowed over this thana many times. As a result, Khoksa thana is at present a seat of the practice of civilization and culture.
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Khoksa is one of the smallest thanas of Kushtia district in Bangladesh. Before 1947 the present Khoksa thana formed part of the Kushtia subdivision of Nadia district, one of the districts of the Presidency Division of undivided Bengal. As far as Khoksa's ancient history is known, towards the end of the reign of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan, Khoksa was under the zamindar of Naldanga in Kaliganj thana of the present Jhenaidah district.
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December 4 is Khoksa Enemy-Free Day. On this day in 1971 the freedom fighters hoisted the red-green flag of victory in that upazila of Kushtia.