Isa Khan - Legacy

Legacy

Isa Khan died of natural causes in September 1599. His son, Musa Khan then took control of Sonargaon. On 10 July 1610 Musa was dethroned by Mughal General Islam Khan Chisti. After that, the descendants of Isa Khan transferred from Sonargaon and settled in Jangalbari Fort. Masum Khan was the eldest son of Musa Khan. Masum served as the Mughal army General during the Hughly invasion in 1632. His eldest son was Monwar Khan. Monwar acted as the chief of the Bengal Zamindars' flotilla on the conquest of Chittagong in 1666. A village called Monwarbagh, in Bandar Upazila of Narayanganj District, was named after him. Haybat Khan, another grandson of Musa, established Haybatnagar (in present-day Mymensingh district) and made it the center of his land-lordship of seven parganas.

Dr James Wise (d. 1886), a civil surgeon in Dhaka for 10 years, published a report on Baro-Bhuyans in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 43 in 1874. He found information from the account of his meeting with the descendants of Isa Khan in Jangalbari and Haybatnagar. He addressed Isa Khan as the Zamindar of Khizirpur. The Haybatnagar family had possessed sanads sent by Shah Shuja in 1649 and another one from Shaista Khan in 1667. Subhan Dad Khan had been the head of the family in Jangalbari in 1874. The other descendant of Haybatnagar family, Ilah Nawaz Khan, had died in Calcutta in 1872. Other branches of the family had settled in Jafrabad and Baghalpur in Mymensingh, Harishpur in Tripura and Katrabo in Dhaka.

In 12 February 1909, a farmer unearthed seven canons in Monwarbagh. The canons were partly made of brass. They had labels mentioning "Isa Khan" and "1002" (Hijri 1002 year is 1593 CE in Gregorian Calendar).

On 15 September 1992, Bangladesh Government issued a commemorative stamp in honor of Isa Khan.

As of 2005, Dewan Amin Dau Khan, the 14th descendant of Isa Khan is living in Jangalbari Fort.