The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.177

v3.c20.177

² This is the event regarding which so many historians, both Eastern and Western have been misled by a misreading in the *Tabaqāt-i-Nāsirī*, due to the ignorance or carelessness of a scribe, who substituted for the Persian words meaning 'the misbelievers of Jājnagar' a corruption which might be read 'the infidels of Chingīz Khān.' Much ink has been spilt over the question, and much ingenuity has been displayed in conjectures as to the route by which the Mughuls reached lower Bengal, but the question has now been laid to rest. Chingīz Khān had, by this time, been dead for eighteen years, and neither he nor any of his Mughuls ever invaded Bengal.