Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c10.5

c10.5

The above theories appear to be unwarranted. The City of Bengala, mentioned by foreign travellers in the late medieval period,⁴ seems to have nothing to do with the early medieval kingdom of Vaṅgāla, which originally denoted a smaller area, but whose geographical sense gradually expanded so as to include ultimately the whole of the land of the Bengali-speaking people.