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Stirling does not give the date of tins invasion. He merely 

 Bays that Pertab reigned from 1493 to 1524. Now on turning to 

 the annals of Bengal we find that Pertab's contemporary was 

 Husain Shall, who lias been mentioned above. But the history of 

 this king, as far as we know it, says nothing of the invasion of Orissa 

 related by Stirling. All that is said of Husain Shah is, that the 

 tributary RAjahs, as far as Orissa, paid implicit obedience to his com- 

 mand, and that during his reign he was beloved by his subjects. And 

 yet, the peasants in the Hiigli district talk now-a-days of the 

 invasion of Orissa under Husain Shah ! and more remarkable still, 

 they ascribe the foundation of the old Fort of Madaran to Husain's 

 general that led the expedition to Orissa, and point out his tomb 

 in the District. 



The geographical position of the old town of Madaran had 

 for a long time been a puzzle to me. In vain do we look 

 for this place on Hennel's maps. Stewart (p. 99) places it in 

 Birbhum, but our Trigonometrical maps mention no place of 

 the name of Madaran. Abulfazl in the Akbarnamah speaks ofton 

 of this town. Sulaiman stopped here, before crossing the fron- 

 tier of Bengal and Orissa ; so did Mun'im Khan, Akbar's 

 second Khan Khanan, Rajah Todar Mall, and the grand Rajah 

 Man Singh. In the Ain, Madaran is mentioned as the name of a 

 large Sirkar, the sixteen parganahs* of which were assessed at 

 Rs. 2,35,085. One of its villages, named Hirpah, had a Diamond 



* 1. A'nliatti, Alhattf, or Alhati, S. of Jahanabad, in the District of Hiigli. 



2. BdlgadM } & Parganah in Hugli, bordering on Bhorsat. It is called on the 

 Maps Belgurrie, or Balgvnj. 



3. Birbhum. The eastern portions of the present district of Birbhum. 



4. Bhovdlblium. 



5. Chittud, now Chittoa in Midnapore (Mednipur). 



6. Champdnagwri, now in the District of Bardwan. 



7. Haiveii i Madaran. Now Jahanabad, Hugli District. 



8. SainbJttrjii, now in Birbhum. 



9. Samarsdnhas, now Summersye, in the Districts of Hiigli and Bardwan. 



10. Sliergarh, commonly called Sik'ha/rbhum, now Raneegunge. 



11. tihdhpur, now a Parganah in Mednipur. 



12. hft. 



13. Mandalg'hdt, now in the Hiigli District, between the Daniudar and the 

 Blip Narain. 



i 1. Mdkur or Ndgor(?). 



15. Mindbdg. 



16. He8CLuU (?). Perhaps a mistake for Mysadul in Hiigli, 8outh of No. 13. 

 I have not been able Lo identify Nos, 12, 11, 15. 





