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who too go to have their meal or midday siesta at this time of 

 the day. It was at this hour when the aged Raja, after a bath 

 and ablution in the sacred stream and the usual puja, was 

 having his meal, still in his undress, and no armed attendants 

 about, that the intrepid Turk with his intrepid troopers 

 came up and took possession of the capital. These Tatars and 

 Turkomans did at this instance preciselv what thev were accus- 

 tomed to do in their Central Asian raids, the difference, in it^ 

 result however, being very great. While thev might secure a 

 booty of a few hundred heads of cattle in their home raids, here 

 by a smgle dash they opened for them and their co-religionists 

 a vast field of incalculable activity— politicallv, sociallv and 

 religiously. As Clive never dreamed what would be the"result 

 of his victory at Plassey, so Malik Bakhtvar never imagined what 

 might be the consequence of his sudden raid. But it is a mis- 

 take to suppose that Bengal fell an eas- victim to the Muslim 

 inroad. The Bengali fought bravely' and tenaciously, as can 

 be seen from the accounts of Pandua and Mnngalkot, in the 



District of Hugh and Burdwan respectively, and other places. 



3 Traditions. 



Santipur has too its traditions. I regret I could not ex- 

 amine Persian documents said to be in the possession of certain 

 Muhammadans. A paper with the Nfid-i-'All and the names 

 ot twelve Imams written on it. which was shown to me. is of no 

 historical value. It is said that a Muhanimadan holy man, 

 llli ? ada f ° m P a . n f* Humayun from Persia to India, requested 

 Akbar that he might be allowed to live in a quiet and secluded 



SSfS. f a ?• be not distur ^d by the noise and hubbub of 

 Sll q ?^ tor - y disc ^sions. Akbar told him either to 



?niw ; ^T- h , (W6St of tlle modern Santipur). or Chandkmi 



oned It M SftS *E Di8trict) ' The f orm ' ' '• Place was then ga rri- 

 S y K 300 ? a thSns and 900 Rajputs with means for their pro- 



S "I 7 nten ? llce - H thehoh man, said Akbar, uouldgo 

 for fh! ga - ' T°? ld l,e ab,e t0 live **ere peacefully and pray 



settlJd \»?T Sa °^ he Im P eri;l1 arm y- The holv man came and 

 T n ;!i t?K U ™^l x - T * ^ also said that Suragarh was in the 



Shah ' Alam. In another docu 



mpnf m„„; \ ii , — «Ji<m oimn Aiam. in anowiei «""- 



Kazim tu ] f bo ? ndar y of a Jaigir conferred on Khundkar 

 STaSS ^ US : Sout h-th? Ganga. North-Nirjhar 



^inf^^^fS^. 8 "?^^ WesrOofiva. The f o 1- 



on thpir »*«+ n^rZi. ""**""* "luuence: Wrhat, *aqir-para. *>r 

 ™JuLT^Z°^ &na > Where the oW Mosque is situated, 

 and R a S T* ^{P^-Para. The descendants of the Path** 



and Rajputs are «til if 7 ' \ f descendants « 



jpucs are still to be met with at Suragarh. 



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Kartik Charit by Bisvesvar Dfa, print , t 8ant] „ Gr in ,,,,5 A.D 



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