The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.37

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Eastern Bengal was still unsettled, and Mun‘im Khān transferred his headquarters from Tāndā to Gaur, further to the east. His officers knew if he did not why the old city had been abandoned, and protested, but in vain, against being compelled to inhabit so pestilential a spot. Their worst anticipations were soon realised. Fourteen officers of high rank fell victims to the climate, and the mortality among the troops was so great that the living were unable to bury the dead, and threw the corpses into the river. Mun‘im Khān remained obstinate until he was recalled to Tāndā by the renewed activity of Junaid Kararānī in Chotā Nagpur, and there he fell sick and died after a short illness in October, 1575.