বাংলা 
English Mirpur
No exact record explains how Mirpur got its name, but the area grew around the indigo kuthi of the notorious planters Taylor and Nudson. The Mirpur thana and tehsil office were established around the kuthi in 1820–1824. When Pabna district was formed in 1828, a police camp was set up at the Para village a mile east of Mirpur; in 1863 the region, including Mirpur, was brought under the Kushtia subdivision of Nadia district, and with the arrival of the railway in 1878 Mirpur began growing into a centre of trade and commerce.
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Khajanagar of Kushtia is a remote village of Bangladesh. Yet though a village, its fame is worldwide. For this place is no mere village - it is a vast industrial town of rice production. The village has now become one of the country's foremost centres at once of rice production, conversion to improved varieties, and marketing. From this rice-industrial town nearly one-third of the whole country's demand is met.
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century a number of indigo planters bought zamindaris in Kushtia district. The English indigo planters forced the tenants to cultivate indigo through dadan (advance loans). The John and Watson Company held zamindari over several hundred square miles in Kumarkhali and Khoksa of Kushtia. As the finest quality indigo was grown in this region, the zamindars made the ordinary tenants cultivate indigo by force. For this indigo cultivation, feudal lords such as zamindars, indigo planters and jotedars inflicted unspeakable oppression on the tenant populace. The tenants had no rights over their land.
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The glorious history of the life of a struggling - Abdur Rouf Chowdhury
Mr. Abdur Rauf Chowdhury was born on 18 August 1935 into a respectable, wealthy Muslim family of Chhatragachha village under Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district. His father's name was the late Abdul Jabbar Chowdhury. Mr. Abdur Rauf Chowdhury passed matriculation from Kushtia Muslim High School in 1950. After obtaining his bachelor's degree from Kushtia College in 1962, he was admitted that very year to the Department of Law at the University of Dhaka and completed the course in due time. But on the eve of the examination, detention under the Safety Act made it impossible for him to sit the exam.
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When his body was brought to the Amla High School field after he was killed by an assassin's bullet, the sky and the air grew heavy with the weeping of hundreds of thousands of men and women. No one had ever seen so many people at anyone's death, such weeping.
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The cloth market adjoining the Poradaha railway junction in Mirpur upazila of the district plays a major role in the economic prosperity of Kushtia district and of the country as a whole. The market is held three days a week - Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Trading worth around Tk 50 crore takes place here.
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8 December is Mirpur thana's liberation day from the Pakistani occupation forces. It is a memorable day in the history of the Bengali people and of Bangladesh's great Liberation War. On this day in 1971, at the cost of much sacrifice and endurance, the Mirpur thana of the district was freed from the Pakistani occupiers. Since then the day has taken its place in the pages of history as Mirpur thana's liberation day.
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In 1867 the then British government laid a railway line from Darshana to Jagati, and it was improved in stages afterwards. By rail from Poradaha one can travel to Rajshahi, Dhaka, Rajbari, Khulna and other places. In 1897 the Darshana-Poradaha section was upgraded from single line to double line. Stage by stage, the Poradaha-Bheramara section was upgraded to double line in 1909, Bheramara-Ishwardi in 1915, and Ishwardi-Abdulpur in 1932.
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7 December. On this day in '71, the historic Amla-Sadarpur of Mirpur in Kushtia observes its liberation day from the Pakistani occupation forces. The area was freed as the achievement of the valour of the brave freedom fighters in the great Liberation War. On this day in 1971, at the cost of great sacrifice and endurance, Amla-Sadarpur was freed from the Pakistani occupiers.
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Mirpur History in kushtia
No definitive information is available on how Mirpur of Kushtia got its name. However, Mirpur grew up around the notorious indigo planters Taylor and Nudson's indigo factory. Centring on that indigo factory, the Mirpur thana and the Mirpur tehsil office were established in 1820-1824.