8. Certain Disputed or Doubtful Events in the History 
of Bengal, Early Musalman Period. Part I 
By Monmowan CHAKRAVARTI, M.A., B.L., M.R.A.S. 
Part I published in the last April number of this Journal 
dealt with the beginning of the Musal- 
man period in Bengal, 595 to 628 H. 
Two of the points dealt therein require 
further notice. Firstly, Major Raverty’s assertions, 589 H. for 
Muhammad-i-Bakht-yar’s sack of Bihar city, and 590 H. for 
his sack of Nidiah, were not discussed in part I, having been 
already noticed in a previous article of mine, J.A.S.B., SB. 
Vol. I, No. 3, p. 49, 1905. On this subject the following pas- 
sage in the Tabakat-i-Nasiri (pp. 516—520) appears to have some 
earing :— 
‘‘ Subsequently in the year 591 H. Thankir was taken ; and 
in 593 H. Kutb-ud-din marched towards N ahrwalah, and 
Sack of Bihar and Na- 
diah. 
of Hindustan, as far east as the frontier of the territory of 
Ujjain: and Malik ’Izz-ud-din Muhammad, son of Bakht-yar, 
the Khalj, in his time and during his government, subdued the 
. cities of Bihar and Nidiah, and that country, as will be 
hereafter recorded.” 
he sequence of events in the above narration implies that 
the sack of Bihar took place after 593 H. 
Secondly, additional coins of Husam-ud-din “Iwaz, the 
earliest Sultan of Bengal to coin in his 
own name, have been described in the 
J.A.S.B., 1881, Vol. 50, part I, pp. 57 and 67, and in the 
catalogues of the British Museum (p. 9), and of the Indian 
Museum (ed. 1907, ii, 145-6). They confirm the fact that he 
was in complete independence between 616 H. and 622H. The 
mint name on the unique gold coin of I-yal-timish, dated 616 
-, read as zarb ba Gaur, may also be read zarb Nagor; and 
therefore the conclusion that up to 616 H. ’Iwaz acknowledged 
the nominal suzerainty of the Delhi Sultan, is not free from 
doubts. 
Coins of ’Iwaz. 
(IV) Matix Sarr-up-pin [pak-1- YUGHAN-TAT. 
He succeeded ‘Ala-ud-din Jani! who had been de 
; ; (Tab., p. 731); but the time of his 
oe eee taking charge is nowhere mentioned. 
! Raverty’s identification of him with *Izz-ud-din Jani, the gover- 
nor of Bihar under Lyal-timish in 622 H. (vide note below p, 772), 
is doubtful, as the surnames are so different. 
