59 Bengal. Whilst Kutb-ad-din was reducing the cities farther west, another general, Mohammad Bakhtiyar, pushed his way to Oudh and on to Lakhnauti, then the capital of Bengal, where its ruins are still identified with those of Gaur near Maldah, and thus brought the extreme east of Hindustan under Moslem rule. FORT OF AJMIR. Meanwhile the Sultan or his viceroy had conquered, if they had not subdued, the greater part of Northern India. Gwalior, Badaun, Kalpi, Kalinjar, and Anhalwara had fallen, and if Mohammad had been content with an Indian empire he might have enjoyed his wish. But the kings of Ghazni were ever looking backward toward the west, where Mahmud had held so vast a sway. Tra- dition led them to long for the orchards and fat pastures
