Land Record Date Converter
Read the Bengali date on an old deed, khatiyan or porcha and find the English date
Enter the Date as Written on the Document
Old land documents write dates in the Bengali calendar, e.g. ১৫ই আষাঢ় ১৩৫৬ সন — pick the day and month, then type the year.
The year can be typed in Bengali (১৩৫৬) or English (1356) digits
How Dates Appear on Old Land Documents
Deeds (দলিল), khatiyan (খতিয়ান), porcha (পর্চা) and CS/SA/RS survey records in Bangladesh and West Bengal record dates in the Bengali calendar, written in Bengali numerals.
Day suffixes: The day carries a Bengali ordinal suffix: ১লা (1st), ২রা–৩রা (2nd–3rd), ৪ঠা (4th), ৫ই–১৮ই (5th–18th), ১৯শে–৩১শে (19th–31st).
The year label: The year is usually marked সন or সাল (san/sal), meaning the Bengali year (Bangabda). Very old documents occasionally use the Fasli, Hijri or English year instead — check which era is named before converting.
Example: ১৫ই আষাঢ় ১৩৫৬ সন reads as 15 Ashar 1356, which converts to 29 June 1949.
About the Land Record Date Converter
Old property documents in Bangladesh and West Bengal are dated in the Bengali calendar, which makes it hard to work out when a deed was registered, how old a record is, or whether a claimed timeline is possible. This tool converts those dates to the Gregorian calendar and accepts input exactly as written on the document, in Bengali numerals.
- ✓Converts deed, khatiyan and porcha dates to Gregorian dates
- ✓Accepts the year in Bengali numerals, exactly as written
- ✓Shows the day of week and how long ago the date was
- ✓Flags pre-1987 dates that followed the old calendar rules