We started the day with a pre-breakfast walk through the village of Matiari, known for metal workers.

After breakfast we learned how to put on traditional clothes: the turban, dohti, and sari.

We continued upriver, sailing past the battlefield of Plassey, where Robert Clive of British East India Company defeated the Mogul Nawabs in 1757.

We visited Khushbagh (Garden of Happiness), complex built by Nawab Ali–Wardi–Khan, housing his family’s private mosque and the graves of family members and three Eunuch bodyguards. His grandson Siraj-ud-Daula was defeated by the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

We continued upriver, docking at Murshidabad where we rode into town to purchase traditional clothing for an event on Tuesday evening.