Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c22.16

c22.16

Bengal, Kingdom of—*continued.* Husain Shāh, Emperor, great patron of Bengali, and founds college in memory of Quṭbul ’Ālam, 109 Mīr Qāsim, patron of learning, 112-113 Murshid Qulī Ja’far Khān, learned, religious, and skilled with the pen, 111-112 Nāṣir Shāh orders translation of *Mahābhārata* into Bengali, 107 Rājah Kānis bestows pensions on the learned from motives partly political, 106-107 Ruins of madrasahs attributed to Ḥusain Shāh, 109-110