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A style that served as model to the great emperor's archi- 
ts 
hed bo dade Bindur and extorted admiration from 
Muslim Relations. 
age by Bengali poets from their Moslem neighbours, and also 
the wholesale adoption of Indo-Saracenic details in the Hindu 
religious buildings. 
This closer touch with the Musalmans also stirred the 
Hindu Revival . dormant activities of the conservative 
u Revival in r5t : : 
abides biti sa aokah Hindus. Hence during the later 
is distinctly traceable. This revival began early in the fifteenth 
century with the seizure of the Bengal throne by the Hindu 
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rule for the third of a century. In the second half of the 
same century it spread in two directions, on one side in 
social reorganisations among Brahmans and Kayasths, a7 
3. 
The force of this revival was felt in local architecture, and 
is traceable even in the Musalman edi- 
tom Z j 
finest examples of the Bengali tomb,’’ where according to the 
most reliable of the traditions, the converted son of Raja 
Ganega, Sultan Jalal-ud-din Muhammad, his wife and his son 
