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1892.] H. Beveridge —Uajali Ivans. 
Pratap. This is an old name, and occurs in the Ain, and probably 
refers to Pratap Sing, the son of Bhagwas Das, and brother of Man 
Singh.* 
It is to be regretted that the information about Rajah Kans or 
Ganesh is so scanty. Perhaps a diligent inquiry in Dinajpur and 
Bogra might lead to further discoveries. Firislita represents him in a 
good light, and as half a Muhammadan. The Riyaz pictures him as a bi¬ 
goted tyrant. Perhaps both accounts are partially correct. Probably 
his severity to Badar-al-Islam was the result of political rather than re¬ 
ligious motives. Even the Riyaz tells us that he allowed his son to be 
made a Muhammadan, and that he himself would have become one but for 
the influence of his Rani. At page 618, Buchanan calls the son Godusen, 
but in his Appendix, page 28, he calls him Juddoo Sein. This is important, 
for it seems to show that Ganesa was connected with the old Sein kings 
of Bengal.f 
I now proceed to discuss the chronology of Rajah Kans or Rajah 
Ganesh’s reign. This is a very obscure matter. There can be no 
doubt that the dates given in the Riyaz are wrong, for they disagree 
with the evidence of coins, and also with the author’s statements about 
Sultan Ibrahim of Jaunpur. There is one clear date, not on a coin, 
which, I think, throws light on the subject. This is the date of the 
* Blochmann’s Ain, 447, and Stewart, 188. 
f At one time I thought that Rajah Ivans might be identified with the Kama 
Sein who ruled at Rangamati in the Murshidabad district. Kama might easily be 
changed into Kan, if not into Ivans ; and Captain Layard, J. A. S. B. XXII, 282, was 
told forty years ago that Kama Sein was a famous Maharajah of Bengal who 
resided chiefly at Gaur. The story of the Riyaz about Rajah Ivans’ making golden 
cows might also agree with the name Gowkaran and the legend told to Captain 
Layard about that place. Gowkaran, is 3 or 4 miles from Rangamati. The natives say 
that it is the place where Rajah Kama kept his cattle, and that Gobarliatti, between 
it and Rangamati, is where the dunghill was. It is also curious that Buchanan, II, 
682, heard of a “ Gokarna Rajah ” at Ghora Ghat in Dinajpur. Finally there is 
the fact that the name of the village near Rangamati where the ruins of the Rajbari 
used to be, and where the moat is still pointed out, is Jadupur, which might point to 
Jadu alias Jdlalluddin. It is quite possible that the legends about Rajah Kama 
Sein may have become mixed up, but I could not hear anything at Rangamati about 
Rajah Kans or Rajah Ganesh. What I was told was that Kama Sein drowned 
himself in the Chauti Bhil, when attacked by the Mahomedans, and that he had a son 
named Brisha Ketu. It may be noted that there is a Ganeshpur north oF Jiaganj 
in Murshidabad. 
Mr. Westmacott informs me that Dr. Buchanan’s MSS. are now in the 
Library of the Royal Asiatic Society in London. It might be worth while to^ exa¬ 
mine them and to see if they say anything more about Rajah Ganesh than what Mr. 
Montgomery Martin published. 
