The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.496

v1.c16.496

The next ruler according to Abul-Faẓl, was Rājā Năujah, who ruled for three years. Could he be the same as Danūj Rāi who according to the *Ta’rīkh-i-Fīrūz Shāhī* ruled in *c.* 1280 A.D. at ‘Sunār-gānw’ and made an agreement with Sulṭān Balban that he should guard against the escape of the rebel Tughril by water?¹ In any case the Musalman conquest of Bengal appears to have been complete about that year. The first Musalman coins which were struck by Mughīth ud-Dīn Tughril from ‘Laknautī’ with the revenue (خراج) of ‘Badan and Nudia’ are dated in H.E. 653 (A.D. 1255).²