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The Initial Coinage of Bengal. 

 GOVERNORS OF BENGAL. 



[No. 1, 



ACCES- 

 SION. 

 A.H. 



NAMES OF GOVERNORS. 



600 

 602 



605 



1. 



2. 

 3. 



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608 



4. 





624 



5. 





627 



6. 



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7. 



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REMARKS. 



First Muhammadan conqueror o* 



Bengal, under Kutb-ud-din of Dehli- 



Succeeds to the local government 



after the death of Muhammad 



Bakhtiar. 



Nominated to the government by 

 Kutb-ud-din, on whose decease in 

 a.h. 607, he assumes independ- 

 ence.* 

 Commandant at Deokdt, establishes 

 his power and assumes royal honors. 

 He submits to Altamsh in a.h. 622, 

 but almost immediately commences 

 an active revolt, which is put an 

 end to in his capture by Nasir-ud- 

 din Mahmud, the eldest son of Al- 

 tamsh, in a.h. 624. 

 Nasir-ud-din had been appointed by 

 his father Governor of Oudh, in 

 a.h. 623, from whence he ad- 

 vanced against Hisam ud-din in 

 624, and recovered the kingdom of 

 Bengal, where he remained as sub- 

 king till his death early in 626 

 After temporary disturbances in the 

 province, Altamsh, having restored 

 order in a.h. 627, designated Ala- 

 ud din Jani to the charge of Ben- 

 gal. 

 Nominated to Bengal on the dismissal 

 of Ala-ud-din Jani (date not given). 

 Dies in 631 a.h. 



* Minhai-ul-Siraj, who treats of the history of his own and immediately pre- 

 ceding times, introduces the reigns of the more powerful sovereigns with a full 

 list of the Court notabilities, forming a sort of Almanach de Gotha oi Muham- 

 madan India These lists embrace the various branches of the Royal Family, 

 Ministers, Judges, and Governors of Provinces. The following names of the 

 k>U's or military administrators of Bengal, which appear in the official returns, 

 may serve to check or confirm the imperfect data obtained from the casual 

 notices of local history to be met with in the general narrative of the events of 

 the Empire at large. There is this discrimination, however, to be made that 

 these imperial nominations were often merely titular, while the effective ex- 

 ecutive was in other and independent hands : 



Under Altamsh, a.h. 607-633. 



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Under Nasir-ud-din Mahmud, a.h, 644-664. 





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