Shilaidaha Kuthibari, Dt. Kushtia, is a historical place associated with the 
Tagore family. It stands on the bank of the river Padma in Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia district and is five miles north of the district headquarters across the Gadai and opposite to the Pabna town further north across the Padma. Shilaidaha is also famous for the kachhari of the Birhimpur zamindari. Shilaidaha is relatively a modern name, its old name was Khorshedpur. When the Thakurs of Jorasanko acquired the village in the middle of the 19th century there stood an indigo-kuthi reportedly built by a planter, named Shelly. A deep daha (whirpool) was formed there at the confluence of the Gadai and the Padma, and hence the village came to be known as 'Shelly-daha', which ultimately took the form of Silaidaha. There the poet lived for more than a decade at irregular intervals between 1889 and 1901.
Tagore family. It stands on the bank of the river Padma in Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia district and is five miles north of the district headquarters across the Gadai and opposite to the Pabna town further north across the Padma. Shilaidaha is also famous for the kachhari of the Birhimpur zamindari. Shilaidaha is relatively a modern name, its old name was Khorshedpur. When the Thakurs of Jorasanko acquired the village in the middle of the 19th century there stood an indigo-kuthi reportedly built by a planter, named Shelly. A deep daha (whirpool) was formed there at the confluence of the Gadai and the Padma, and hence the village came to be known as 'Shelly-daha', which ultimately took the form of Silaidaha. There the poet lived for more than a decade at irregular intervals between 1889 and 1901.During his stay there, eminent scientists , literateurs, and intelligentia of Bengal such as Sir Jagadish Ch.Bose, Pramatha Choudhury, Mohitlal Majumdar, Lokenath Palit visited him on various occsions. Sitting at his desk in the Kuthibadi or on aboat on Padma, Rabindranath wrote a number of masterpieces: Sonar Tari, Chitra, Chaitali, Katha O Kahini, Kshnaika, most of the poems of Naibedya and Kheya, and the songs of Gitanjali and Gitimalya.
Kuthibadi is a picturesque three-storied terraced bunglow, constructed with bricks, timbers, corrugated tin sheets,and Raniganj tiles. Silaidaha Kuthibadi is nestled within about 11 aces of beautiful orchards of mango, jackfruit, and other evergreen trees, a flower garden and two ponds. Silaidaha has an enchanting natural beauty and rural landscape. The villa, enclosed within a boundary wall, is entered through a simple but attractive gateway on the south. It looks very beautiful from outside.
It accomodates about 15 apartments of various sizes with a large central hall on the ground floor and the first floor is partly covered with with sloping roof of Raniganj tiles, while the central part over the ground floor has a pitched roof with gable ends.A short pyramidal crest farther variegates the roof over the second storey.
