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IS/3.] H. Blochmann —Geography and History of Bengal. 
Akbarnamah, Sirkars Bakla and Fatliabad, and settled there ; but after 
some time, be came into collision with Mukund, the powerful Hindu 
zammdar of Fatliabad and Bosnah, who, in order to get rid of him, 
invited him to a feast and murdered him together with his sons.* * * § This 
notice helps us to explain a remark made by Grant that in Shah Shuja’s 
rent-roll (1658) a portion of Sundarban land had for the first time been 
assessed at Rs. 8,454, the abadis being called Muradkhanali.f The name of 
Mukund still lives in the name of the large island ‘ Char Mukundia’ in the 
Ganges opposite Faridpur. This Mukund is the same zamindar whom the 
Padisliahnamah wrongly calls * Mukindra of Bosnah.’ His son Satrjit 
gave Jahangir’s governors of Bengal no end of trouble, and refused to 
send in the customary peslckasJi or do homage at the court of Dhaka. He 
was in secret understanding with the Rajahs of Koch Bihar and Koch Hajo, 
and was at last, in the reign of Shahjahan, captured and executed at 
Dhaka (about 1636, A. D.) One of his descendants, or successors in the 
zamindari, is the notorious Sitaram Rai of Mahmudpur.J 
Another Zamindar of Fatliabad is mentioned in the beginning of 
Shahjahan’s reign, Majlis Bayazid,—by his very name an Afghan. 
The Parganahs to the south of Baqirganj are called on the maps 
£ Boozoorgoomedpore’ and ‘ Arungpore,’ which names are connected with 
Buzurg Umed Khan, son of Shaistah Khan (Aurangzib’s governor of 
Bengal from 1664 to 1677) and with Aurangzib, ‘ Arang’ being a cor¬ 
ruption of Aurang. East of these two Parganahs we have Shaistah- 
nagar.§ These names, though they do not perhaps shew when the mahalls 
were reclaimed, point to the time when they came for the first time on the 
Imperial rent-roll. 
Sirkar Fathabad, as stated above, comprised the islands of Dak’hin- 
Shalibazpur, S o n d i p, &c. Of the latter island we have a short notice by 
Caesar Frederick, the Venetian merchant, who travelled in Asia, as he himself 
says, from 1563 to 1581. He left Pegu for Cliatigan (Chatgaon), “ between 
* Ain translation, p. 374. 
f Grant derives the name from murcid and Tthdnah, the 1 house of desire j’ but 
there is little doubt that we should derive it from Murad Khan, ‘ Murad Khan’s 
clearance.’ I do not know to what part of Baqirganj or Faridpur the name was 
applied. Grant also says that Murad Khanah was sometimes called Jeradkhanah. 
1 Journal, As. Socy. Bengal, for 1872, Part I, pp. 58, 59. Satrjit’s name occurs 
in the name of the town of Satrjitpur on the Noboganga, in north-eastern Jessore, not 
far from Mahmudpur (wrongly called Mahomedpoi’e on all modern maps) on the 
Madhumatiand from the old town of Bosnah, on the Alangk’liali [Elleixkalli] Branch. 
Vide Westland’s Jessore Report, p. 32. 
§ Shaistah Khan’s real name is Mirza Abu Talib ; hence we find in Dhaka, District 
a Talibabad. Nur Jahan was Shaistah Khan’s aunt; vide Ain translation, p. 512. 
