The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.35

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Sher Shāh now learned that his governor of Bengal had married a daughter of Sultān Mahmūd of that country, and was meditating rebellion, so he set out at once for Gaur. Here he punished the governor, by imprisonment in chains, for his presumption in marrying without leave, and for having held courts in the royal manner. Sher Shāh then remodelled the administration of Bengal to avert the danger of rebellion. He divided the country into a number of charges but appointed no governor or viceroy, and gave to no official authority over another, but appointed a jurist as supervisor of all, with instructions to see that the charges were properly administered, that all money due to the treasury was regularly remitted, and that the officials abstained from conspiracy. He then returned to Āgra.