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^Sarkar, Jadunath, ed (1973) [First published 1948]. The History of Bengal. Volume II: Muslim Period, 1200-1757. Patna: Academica Asiatica. pp. 3, 8. OCLC924890
^Sarkar, Jadunath, ed (1973) [First published 1948]. The History of Bengal. Volume II: Muslim Period, 1200-1757. Patna: Academica Asiatica. pp. 2–3. OCLC924890. "granting him in jagir two parganas in the south-eastern corner of the modern Mirzāpur district ... having supplanted the petty Gahadvār chiefs of this tract, he began ravaging the open country to the east ... he confined himself to scouring the open country undefended by the field army of any organised State."
^Sarkar, Jadunath, ed (1973) [First published 1948]. The History of Bengal. Volume II: Muslim Period, 1200-1757. Patna: Academica Asiatica. p. 3. OCLC924890. "Bakhtyār led his army a second time in the direction of Bihar in the year following the sack of the fortified monastery of that name. This year, i.e. 1200 A.D., he was busy consolidating his hold over that province."
^Sarkar, Jadunath, ed (1973) [First published 1948]. The History of Bengal. Volume II: Muslim Period, 1200-1757. Patna: Academica Asiatica. p. 8. OCLC924890. "Bakhtyār fairly completed his conquest of the Varendra tract with the ... city of Gaur before the year 599 A.H."
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