Land Record Date Converter
Find the English date for the Bengali date written on an old deed, khatiyan or porcha
Enter the Date as Written on the Document
Old land documents give the date in the Bengali calendar, for example ১৫ই আষাঢ় ১৩৫৬ সন. Pick the day and the 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 the CS, SA and RS survey records of Bangladesh and West Bengal give dates in the Bengali calendar, written in Bengali numerals.
Day suffixes: The day number carries a Bengali suffix: ১লা (1st), ২রা and ৩রা (2nd, 3rd), ৪ঠা (4th), then ৫ই to ১৮ই (5th to 18th) and ১৯শে to ৩১শে (19th to 31st).
San or sal: The year is usually followed by সন (san) or সাল (sal), which means the Bengali year, Bangabda. A few very old documents use the Fasli, Hijri or English year, so check which one is named before you convert.
Example: ১৫ই আষাঢ় ১৩৫৬ সন reads as 15 Ashar 1356, and that is 29 June 1949.
What This Converter Is For
Old land papers in Bangladesh and West Bengal are dated in the Bengali calendar. That makes it hard to tell when a deed was registered, how old a record is, or whether a claimed sequence of events could have happened. This converter turns those Bengali dates into English dates. You enter the year just as it is written on the document, and Bengali numerals are fine.
- ✓Converts deed, khatiyan and porcha dates to English dates
- ✓Takes the year in Bengali numerals, just as it is written
- ✓Shows the day of the week and how many years ago the date was
- ✓Warns you when a date is from before 1987 and followed the old almanac