Description
In this book, descriptive of the laces and objects of interest at Murshidabad, the birth place and cradle of British rule in India, was keenly felt in the early part of 1902, on the occasion of the first viceregal visit to the old capital of Bengal. Mahomedan sovereignty in Bengal, of which Murshidabad had not yet become the capital, was established about the year 1203, when Luknowti or Lakshanavati, known is Gour, a large city on the left bank of the Ganges, twenty-five miles south of Maldah, was the seat of Government. Lakshman Sen, the Hindu King of Bengal, whose capital was at Navadwip, had been told by his Court astrologers, that the kingdom would be subjucated by the Turks. For the first half of the eighteenth century, the history of Murshidabad is the history of the progress of the Mahomedan Government of Bengal, while the latter half represents the history of the decline of the Mahomedan and the rise of the British power in that province.
