History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c42.s6.8

v3.c42.s6.8

"As they continually practised raids for a long time, Bengal daily became more and more desolate and less and less able to resist them. Not a house was left inhabited on either side of the rivers lying on their track from Chatgaon to Dacca. The district of Bakla (i.e. Bakarganj and part of Dacca), which formerly abounded in houses and cultivated fields and yielded a large revenue as duty on betel-nuts, was swept so clean with their broom of plunder and abduction that none was left to tenant any house or kindle a light in that region."