[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Bengal, Orissa and the North-East](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east) › [Riyāẓ al-salāṭīn](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin) › [The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam) › 22 # Riyaz al-salatin 22: MALDAH. The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam) 22 - **Language:** English ### [22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.22) The town of Maldah is on the banks of the river Mahananda. At a distance of three karoh towards the north, is situate holy Panduah, which contains the sacred shrine of Hazrat Makhdum Shah Jalal Tabrizi (May God sanctify his shrine!) and the sacred mausoleum of Hazrat Nur Qutubu-l-'Alam Bangali (May God illuminate his tomb!), which are places of pilgrimage for the people, and resorts of the indigent and the afflicted, and are channels of various boons. For instance, every traveller and beggar who arrives there, and stops therein the night, is not allowed to cook his food for three meals. The servants there supply him from the public store-house, either with cooked food, or with rice, pulse, salt, oil, meat and tobacco, according to his position in life. And every year in the month of Shab-i-barat or Zilhajh, whichever of these months falls in the dry season, a fair attended by a large number of people is held, so much so that laks of people from distances of fifteen and twenty days' journey, such as Hughli, Silhat and Jahangirnagar, &c., come and congregate, and benefit by pilgrimage. And in Maldah and in its environs, good silk-stuff as well as a kind of cotton-stuff of the sort of muslin is manufactured. Plenty of silk-worms are found in its environs, and raw silk is turned out. And for a period of time, the factory of the English Company has been fixed on the other side of the Mahananda. They buy cotton and silk piece-goods, made to order of the chiefs of the English Company, who make advances of money in the shape of bai ' sallam. Raw silk is also manufactured in the factory. And since two or three years, an indigo-factory has been erected, close to the above factory. The Company manufactures and purchases indigo, loads it on ships, and exports it to its own country. Similarly, close to the ruins of Gaur, in the village of Goamalti, another masonry-built factory has been erected; at it also indigo is manufactured. Although a description of the town of Maldah was not necessary, yet as since two years my master, Mr. George Udney (May his fortune always last) has been holding here the office of the Chief of the Factory of the Company, and also since in this place this humble servant has been engaged in the composition and compilation of this book, the above narrative has been given. - [Previous: 21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.21) - [Next: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.23) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.east.riyaz-al-salatin~en-abdus-salam.22) · Pramāṇa