[5] During the Liberation War in 1971, the Pakistan Army killed 212 in Gava Village,[5] where all Ghosh Dastidar and Ghosh Ray used to live and they mostly left their ancestral land for India.

The villagers were rounded by local collaborators of the Pakistan Army, Akkas Ali Khan and Sarat Samaddar, in front of a canal and told their photos would be taken.

[citation needed] According to the 2011 Census of Bangladesh, Banaripara Upazila had 34,186 households and a population of 148,188.

Banaripara had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 67.25%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 1028 females per 1000 males.

[10] There are two Swathidaha Maths, a copper Manasa Bigraga weighing 3.5 maunds and a six-foot-high Bigraha at Narattampur (200 years old) which used to be family lineage of the Ghosh Ray family of Narratampur.