[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883) › c28 # Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c28: XXIII.—Fasli Era of Bengal Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c28 - **Language:** English ### XXIII.—Fasli Era of Bengal ### [c28.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c28.1) THE \*Fasli\* Era owes its origin to Akbar's love of innovation. It should properly be dated from the time of his own accession, or the 2nd of Rabi-us-Sâni in the Hijra year 963, or 14th February 1556; but the actual solar reckoning of the Fasli system in Bengal begins with the 1st of Vaisâkh of the Hindu solar year, on Saturday the 28th March, O.S., or Saturday the 6th April, N.S.\* In the account published by James Prinsep, the different reckonings of the Fasli calendar in various parts of India are all noticed. It is altogether a mongrel era, the first 963 years being purely lunar ones of the Hijra Calendar, after which the years are purely solar ones, the Bengâli sanh beginning with the 1st of the Hindu Vaisâkh, the Fasli of Northern India with the 1st of the lunar Aswina, and the Vilayati with the 1st of the solar Aswina. ### [c28.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c28.2) There is also a later \*Fasli era\* in the Dakhin, which was established by Shah Jahân in A.D. 1636 or 1046. The beginning of the year has been fixed by the Madras Government to the 12th of July. ### [c28.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c28.3) ∗ James Prinsep gives 11th April 1556 as the 1st of Vaisâkh, but this is clearly a mistake, as his own Tables give the same date for the beginning of the Fasli year in 1856. — \*Useful Tables\*, p. 36. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c28) · Pramāṇa