Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c10.82

c10.82

was well-equipped with libraries.¹ The atrocities of Bakhtiyār did not leave a single scholar alive. The massacres at Bihār were followed by the destruction of Nadīyā which was then both the political and intellectual capital of Bengal. Bakhtiyār then made partial amends for his destructive work by his construction of mosques, colleges and monasteries in the different parts of the country for the spread of Muhammadan learning.²