Once upon a time, Murshidabad used to be a riverside caravanserai by the name of Makhsudabad. Behind its renaming was a man called Quli Khan, who was born in a Brahmin family in south India but was raised as a Muslim who went on to impress Aurangzeb with his bookkeeping skills. The Mughal emperor made him the de facto governor of Bengal, whose boundaries at the time also included Bihar and Orissa. Later, pleased by his service, Aurangzeb bestowed him with the title of Murshid. In 1704, when Murshid Quli Khan shifted his base from Jahangir Nagar (now Dhaka) to Makshudabad, he renamed the
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Story behind name Murshidabad in Bengal
