The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c15.127

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The Musalman invasion of the Brahmaputra valley was repeated on several occasions in the period of about 450 years which extended from A.D. 1205 to 1662. But most of these met with disasters, and Islām never succeeded in making any headway in the Valley. In about 1226-27 Sulṭān Ghiyāth ud-Dīn of Bengal appears to have led an expedition into ‘Kāmrūd and Bang’ but on the approach of an army under Maḥmūd son of Iltutmish he had to retreat hastily to save his territory.¹ In about A.D. 1258 Malik Ikhtiyār ud-Dīn Yūzbak-i-Tughril Khān, marching from Lakhaṇavatī, crossed the river Begmatī (Karatoya) and invaded the territories of the ‘Rāe of Kāmrūd.’ At first the Hindu prince was defeated and his capital was occupied by the Musalmans ; but when the Khān rejected the request of the ‘Rāe’ to be allowed to continue as a feudatory of Lakhaṇavatī, the ‘Rāe’ attacked and destroyed him and his army.² There were other expeditions. But the last of them was led by Mīr Jumla, the famous general of Aurangzīb, whose triumphant march to Ghargaon on the Brahmaputra ended in disastrous retreat and death from the effects of the hardships of the campaign (1663 A.D.).³