"A fundamental and basic difference between the two communities was apparent even to the casual observer. Religious an…"

"[Bengal was conquered by...] Muslim militant saints, the Firs who cropped up after the seed or Islam had been broad c…"

"The fourteenth century was a period of expansion of Muslim authority in Bengal and the adjoining territories. A signi…"

"Barbosa was struck by the fact that in Bengal “everyday Gentiles turn Moors to obtain favour of the King and Governors”."

"But Bengal, especially eastern Bengal, calls for a special study, for Bengal did not lie on the route of the Muslim i…"

"The Mussulmans of Calcutta though adopting various Hindu practices, have never amalgamated with the Hindus. They seem…"

"About a century after the military and political conquest of Bengal, there began the process of the moral and spiritu…"

"(The Sufis) established their khanaqahs on the sites of Buddhist shrines, and (it) fitted well into the religious sit…"

"The administration is hopelessly inefficient and dishonest and as no improvement can be expected in the course of thi…"

"The next year Malik Muhammad Bakhtiyar started from Behar, and with a small force reached the city of Nudiar by succe…"