The Delta Of Dynasties on Instagram: "“When Dhaka was Dacca” Dhaka was always the original Bengali name of the city, but during the British period it was spelled as “Dacca” because colonial administrators wrote Bengali words according to English pronunciation. The region had been known as Dhaka since the pre-Mughal era. When the Mughals made Dhaka the capital of Bengal Subah in 1608, its name was well established, but under British rule the distorted spelling “Dacca” spread globally through maps