Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c24.6

c24.6

Although Dacca thus seems to have become a great city only in the early years of the seventeenth century, there is reason to believe that it enjoyed some amount of political importance even in the early Muslim and pre-Muslim periods. This is not only indicated by Islām Khān’s choice of the place as the provincial capital,¹ but also by the very name of Dacca itself.