History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c10.53

c10.53

⁴⁵ Thomas, The Initial Coinage of Bengal. J. A. S. B., Vol. XXXVI, Pt. I, p. 52 and Plate I, Figure 7. For further reference the following may be consulted:— Man Mohan Chakravarti's article on Bengal in the J. A. S. B., 1909, p. 203. Thomas, The Chronicles, p. 263 Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, IV, p. 86. Yule does not investigate the date. He simply says Fakhr-al-Din declared his independence either in 737 or 739 A.H. N. K. Bhattāsāli, Coins and Chronology of the Early Independent Sultans of Bengal, pp. 9—14. Mr. Bhattāsāli is inclined to agree with Blochmann but does not give any cogent reason in support of his statement.