47. The Twelve Bhuiyas or Landlords of Bengal. 
By the Rev. H. Hosrsn, S$.J. 
Bengal.’’ 
Prof. Blochmann wrote in Contributions to the Geography 
M 
Dr. J. Wise pushed the subject considerably further in 
J.A.8.B., 1874, p. 197 et sqq.; 1875, pp. 181-183; and Mr. 
H. Beveridge offered some other important elucidations in 
J.A.S.B., 1904, pp. 57-63. 
. Wise quoted among his authorities (1874) the Latin 
edition of du Jarric. We shall translate presently two pas 
of Bengala, which comprises about two hundred leagues of sea- 
coast, was inhabited partly by native Bengalis, who are gener- 
ally Pagans, partly by Saracens, for the most part Patans or 
Parthians [Persians], who, having been driven from the King- 
om of Mogor, which they h 
1 Allusion to the events of 1576. 
