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The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
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A major modern study of Islam, frontier society, agrarian expansion, and state power in Bengal.
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Discover Bengal · Unfolded
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Capital Shift to Dhaka (Jahangirnagar)
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Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive
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Baro-Bhuiyans
Secondary
Banglapedia overview of the Bara-Bhuiyans and their resistance role in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Bengal.
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Dhaka
Secondary
Banglapedia entry including the 1610 transfer of Bengal's capital to Dhaka and the name Jahangirnagar.
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Islam Khan Chisti
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Banglapedia entry on Islam Khan's Bengal subahdari and campaigns against Bhuiyan resistance.
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The History of Bengal, Vol. II: Muslim Period, 1200-1757
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A standard survey of Bengal from the Turkish conquest through the end of Muslim rule in 1757.
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Baharistan-i-Ghaybi
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Mirza Nathan’s eyewitness chronicle of Bengal, Assam, and neighboring regions under Jahangir.