Hazrat Shah Doulah settled at Bagha and started preaching Islam after being granted 42 parganas by the rulers.

[3] Bagha thana of present-day Rajshahi district was a thriving centre of learning in the early Muslim period.

An inscription table of the time of Sultan Nusrat Shah was discovered there that records the construction of a Jam’i mosque in 930 A.H. (1523-24 A.D.) One Abdul Latif visited the Bagha madrasah in 1609.

[6] During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, temporary camps were founded by the Pakistan Army in places such as Narayanpur, Bagha, Pakuria, Arani, Alaipur and Chawkrajapur and many brawls took place in these camps against the 400 Bengali freedom fighters of Bagha.

Bagha had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 49.65%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1002 females per 1000 males.