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Historical research
Muslim rule
succeeding periods
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- ISBN 9789390035625
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 154 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume, deals with inscriptions of more than six centuries of Muslim rule in Bengal (ad 1233-1855). The author Shamsud-din Ahmed has systematically organized the mass of material scattered over several books and scholarly journals in this volume. Divided into five chapters, he has deciphered and edited all available epigraphic records of the Muslim rulers of Bengal. The epigraphic records of the pre-Suri period are distinguished by their comparative documentary value from those of the succeeding periods. The inscriptions of the Ilyas Shahi, Habshi and Husain Shahi Sultans are replete with references to the legal status of the ruler, the official titles of the provincial governor and the nomenclature of the administrative units into which the kingdom of Bengal might have been divided.
Shamsud-din Ahmed (1889-1987) an archaeologist and numismatist, was born in Dewanpara in Murshidabad district. In 1927 joined as Assistant Curator of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Ananda Bhattacharyya is Assistant Director, Directorate of State Archives, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta.
