The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c7.142

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³ For the views of Raverty and Blochmann, both of whom led the expedition through Sikkim into Darjeeling, see (a) Trans. Tab. Nas., pp. 561-65, note, and (b) JASB, 1875, p. 283. For the Silhako bridge, discovered by Col. Hannay, see JASB, 1851, pp. 29-94. The inscription at the spot known as the Kanaibadasibaea, was first noticed in Bhattacharya: Kamarupa Sasanabali, pp. 27-44. It refers to the Turks as "Samagatye", "who had come", and not "invaded". The best contribution to the whole question of Bakhtiyar's route is by Bhattashali: IHQ, 1927, pp. 49, sq. The name Begmati or Bangmati creates some doubt, for no Bengal river bears that name; but solution may lie in supposing that Minhaj erroneously transferred the name of Rangamati (Bangmati being a likely clerical slip), an ancient place on the bend of Brahmmaputra to the Karatoya. Alternatively, Barnadi might have become Bangmati; a recent