Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c10.35

c10.35

² Sonārgāon was the capital of East Bengal during early Muslim days. Dacca was made the capital of the Bengal Subah early in the 17th century. The remark of Purchas that ‘Gauro (Gaur or Lakhnauti), the seat royal, and Bengala are fair cities’ (I.H.Q., op. cit, p.230) apparently refers to the fact that Bengala was the chief city of East Bengal and was looked upon as a secondary capital of Bengal.