Gar Mandaran is a village and a gram panchayat in the Goghat II CD block in the Arambag subdivision of the Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal, India.

The ruins of a fort at Gar Mandaran provided the setting for Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s 1865 novel Durgeshnandini.

The story centres around the attack and occupation of Gar Mandaran stronghold of Raja Birendra Singh, linked to the Bishnupur Raj, by the Pathans who were then entrenched in Odisha.

Around the time when Bakhtiyar Khilji (1204–1206) came to Bengal, the region was divided into five parts – Rarh, Bagri, Vanga, Barendra, and Mithila.

The fort of Mandaran was under the control of Gajapati Kapilendra Deva of Odisha but was lost to Bengal Sultan later.

[5][6] The tomb of warrior Shah Ismail Ghazi is situated in the mound of Gar Mandaran.