The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 24.1

24.1

[Just at this time, a despatch arrived from Islam Khan, with intelligence of the defeat of the enemy, and the deliverance of the country of Bengal from the sway of ’Usman the Afghan. Before entering upon this subject, a few particulars respecting Bengal may be recorded. It is an extensive country, situated in the second clime. Its length is 450 kos, extending from Bandar Chatgam (the port of Chittagong) to Garhi, and its breadth, from the northern mountains to the province of Madaran (Midnapur), is 220 kos. Its revenue amounted to sixty krors of dams. In former times, its governors always maintained 8000 horse, one lac of foot soldiers, 1000 elephants, and 400 or 500 war boats. From the time of Sher Khan Afghan and his son Salim Khan, this country had remained in the possession of the Afghans. When my revered father mounted and adorned the throne of Hindustan, he appointed an army to subdue it. Strenuous efforts to effect its conquest were for a long time maintained, and at length it was wrested from the hands of Daud Kirani, the last ruler of the country, who was killed, and his forces defeated and scattered by Khan Jahan.