[3] Ghoraghat was established in the time of Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji (see Blochmanu's Contr., J.A.S,1873, p. 215, Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, p. 156, Ain-i-Akbari, Vol.

After the historical conquest of Nabadwip from Lakshman Sen in 1203 and the conquest of principal city Gaur, Ikhtiyar al-Dīn Muḥammad Khalji left the town of Devkot in 1206 to attack Tibet, leaving Ali Mardan Khalji in Ghoraghat.

As soon as the Muslims had made themselves masters of Gaur, they established two frontier posts, one at Dumdumma, on the bank of river Punarbhaba and another at Ghoraghat.

A mosque in Dumdumma bears an inscription recording that it was built by Zafar Khan Bahram Iztin in the reign of Kai Kaos Shah in the year 697 A.H.(1297 AD).

[4] The Ain-i-Akbari lists Ghoraghat as one of the 19 sarkars of Bengal Subah, resulting from Raja Todar Mal's fiscal reorganisation of the province.

Being the northern frontier district skirting Koch-Behar, numerous colonies of Afghan and Mughal chiefs were planted there under the feudal system, with large jagir lands under each.

Bhim Narain became daring and refused to pay tribute and with a large force attacked Ghoraghat.

In the same year (on 17th Rabiul-Awwal 1072 A.H) the Khan-i-Khinan (Muazzam Khan) set out from Khizrpur (which has been identified to be a place close to Narayanganj) with war-vessels, for the conquest of Koch-Behar.

Ghoraghat had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 45.98%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 996 females per 1000 males.

[12] Santals, Mall Pahari, Bunna and Oraon are the indigenous groups living here for centuries.