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Gour Gas Gy sack— Note on Khanja Khan Garh, 
[No. 2, 
Note on Khanja Khan Garh in the District of Bardwdn, Jahmdibdd 
Sub-Division, Bengal.—By Gour Gas Bysack, Deputy Magistrate , 
late of Jahdindbdd. 
In the days of the Emperor Jahangir, Bangbara Khan, the founder of 
Kot Simulgarh, came to Bengal, and first settled twelve miles south of 
Bardwan in the village of Salimabad on the banks of the Bamudar. 
Many may doubt the authenticity of his advent to this country in the 
time of Jahangir. But from inquiry on the subject we find that Mukanda 
Bam Chakravarti, Kavi Kankana, wrote his celebrated work, the Chandi, 
during the latter part of Akbar’s reign, i. e., in the time of Baja Man 
Sinha’s rule in Bengal, that this learned poet was a native of the village 
of Gamunya, in the vicinity of Ivot Simul, about ten miles north of .Jahan- 
abad, and that he received a sanad from Nawab Khanazad Khan or Ivhana 
Khan, the son of Bangbara Khan. Baja Man Sinha ruled in Bengal 
from the year 1589 A. B., and left this country in the beginning of the 
reign of the Emperor Jahangir (1604 A. B.). It is not likely that Kavi 
Kankan died immediately on returning to his native village Gamunya from 
Arar-Brahmana where he composed his Chandi. It was while he % was still 
living, and most probably after the death of Bangbara Khan, that Khanazad 
'Khan, the son of Bangbara Khan, was dignified with the title of Nawab, 
and was commissioned by the Emperor to rule in this country. 
It has already been said that Bangbara Khan first fixed himself at 
Salimabad, but it cannot be admitted as a fact that he was the founder of 
that village. It is supposed that the village of Salimabad was either 
founded by Sulaiman, the last but one Afghan king of Bengal, or by 
some functionary of his. On looking into ancient records we are satis¬ 
fied that the name of the village has ever been written and read 
as Salimabad. If it had been founded by king Sulaiman, it was 
but just to have it called after his name Sulaimanabad. There is suffi¬ 
cient proof also of its not having been founded in the days of the Emperor 
Jahangir (Salim). Sulaimanbad was in existence at the time of Kavi 
Kankan’s composition of the Chandi. It is written in his work* that 
the owner of the village of Gamunya was an inhabitant of Salimabad.f 
Now the Chandi was written in the days of Akbar when Bengal was in the 
t In those days one Gopf Kith Niyogi was the owner of the village. 
