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hospitals for sheep, goats, dogs, cats, birds, and for all living creatures. 
When they he old and lame, they keep them until they die. If a man 
catch or buy any quick thing in other places and bring it thither, they will 
give him money for it or other victuals, and keep it in their hospitals or let 
it go. They will give meat to the ants. Their smal m.ony is almonds, 
which often times they use to eate.” 
As Ralph Fitch mentions Chichakota, and the ’Alamgirnamah Kan- 
thalbari,* as belonging to the Koch Bihar, it follows that portions of the 
Duars must have once belonged to Koch Bihar. 
Aurangzib’s army under Mir Jumlali took Koch Bihar on the 19th 
December, 1661, when the town was called ’Alamgirnagar,f a name which 
has not come into use ; and the imperial collectors expected to raise a 
revenue of eight lak’hs of rupees, whilst in Prince Shuja’s rentroll of 1658 
Koch Bihar is put down as yielding Rs. 3,27,794. 
On Van den Broucke’s map, the whole Himalaya tract, from northern 
Bihar to A'sam, is called ‘ ’T Ryk van Ragiawarra,’ or the realm of Rajawara 
and in the text he says, that “ Ragiawara consists of several separate 
countries, which sometimes fight the Great Mogul, and at other times are 
forced to submit.” Of these several countries he mentions on the map ’T 
Ryk van Morang and ’T Ryk van Jesval, which latter name is also given 
on Blaev’s map and will be remarked on below. 
The Morang was entered by Mughul troops in the beginning of 
Aurangzib’s reign. We first hear of an expedition led by Mirza Khan, 
Faujdarof Darbhanga, and Ilali Virdi Khan, Faujdar of Gorak’hpur, against 
the refractory zamindar of Morang (beginning of 1075, or end of A. D. 
1664). Mirza Khan died during the expedition ; but Ilali Virdi Khan 
returned with fourteen wild elephants and nine presentation elephants. J 
In the end of 1079 (beginning of 1669), Ma^um Khan reported that a false 
Shuja’ had appeared in Morang and had caused disturbances there, and 
Ibrahim Khan and Fidai Khan received orders to capture him wherever he 
shewed himself, and to send his head to Court. Lastly, in 1087 (beginning 
of 1676), we hear of a conquest of Morang, but no particulars are given. 
* West of Kanthalban, the maps give a place called Mogulmurri [Mughulmail], 
evidently the scone of a fight with Mughul troops. Another Mughulmari lies between 
Bardwan and Jahanabadj a third between Medinipur and Jalesar, where Akbar’s 
troops defeated Daud Shah (Am translation, p. 376); and a fourth, eight miles north 
of Medinipur. 
f Tlianah Sangramgarh, one of Aurangzib’s frontier thanahs near Noak’hali, 
had received the same name in allusion to the title of the emperor. 
J ’ A'lamgirnamaii, pp. 850,875. Madsir i ’ A'lamgvH, pp. 64,150. 
