Majumdars of Sylhet

The family was founded by a man called Sarwar khan from the village of Barsala and worked as a minister under the Sultan of Bengal.

[3] In the late 17th century, Syed Bakht Majumdar and his family migrated to Makkah, under the Ottoman Empire, where he joined the council of the Sharif of Mecca and was awarded the Star of the Mejidhi.

Following Syed's return to Sylhet, he and his son, Moulvi Hamid Bakht Majumdar, became one of the only people in their province to be exempted of civil court attendance.

[6] Hamid's younger brother, Majid Bakht Majumdar was made the Deputy Collector and Magistrate of Rajshahi in 1878.

In the early eighteenth century, Syed's other son (who was born in Makkah), Muhammad Bakht Majumdar, was made the Honorary Magistrate of Bengal and the Extra Assistant Commissioner in Assam.

He was an important visitor of the Civil Jail and Leper Asylum in Sylhet and a member of the District's Local Board council.

[8] Muhammad was also one of the prominent leaders of the Sylhet-Bengal Reunion League formed in 1920 to reunite the Sylhet district with Bengal, which it had been separated from.

Majid Bakht Majumdar was invited to the Delhi Durbar in 1903.
One of many battles which took place between the British and their allies against a Lusei clan in Mizoram during the late 19th century.