29. Contributions to the History and Ethnology of 
North-Eastern India—IV. 
By H. E. Star.eron, LES., Special Officer, Dacca University 
BENGAL CHRONOLOGY DURING THE PERIOD OF INDEPENDENT 
Must Rou. 
Part I, 685-735 A.H. (1286-1334 A.D.) 
Shortly after the issue, in 1911, of the first Catalogue of 
Coins in the Shillong Cabinet the writer had the singular good 
fortune for a numismatist of discovering a Muhammadan cul- 
tivator at Singsri, on the Lakhya River, north of Dacca 
District, who was in possession of a large number of mediaeval 
Bengal coins. Among the coins that he produced when ! first 
Visited his village was one of the hitherto almost unknown 
Hindu King Danujmarddana (c. 1416 A.D.); and in conse- 
Mymensingh in 1909; at Purinda, Dacca, in 1910; at Rupai- 
bari, Nowgong, in 1911; and at Kastabir Mahalla, Sylhet, in 
1913; all of which were then uncatalogued. The war, however, 
intervened; and I was onl , before leaving India, to 
describe a few coins of the same provenance as my own [n> 
the Dacca Review for April, 1915. 
On my return to India at the end of 1919 I found that the 
enforced delay had not been without a large degree of compen- 
sation. In the interval, a supplement to the Shillong Cata- 
logue had been published : and further interesting finds of me- 
diaeval Bengal coins had been made at Rautkhai (Sylhet) 1914, 
Khulna District in 1915, Kankaribagh (Sylhet) 1916, Bashail 
(Sylhet) 1917, and Murapara (Dacca District) in 1919. To 
some extent I even found myself forestalled by a discussion 
of the Murapara find that obtained for its author (Babu 
Nalini Kanta Bhattasali, M.A., Curator, Dacca Museum) a 
of the Griffith prizes of the Calcutta University in 1920 ; an 
