Author:

Binay Laha
Research Scholar
Department of History
Raiganj University
Raiganj,West Bengal,India

Email: binkrishna.taps@gmail.com

Abstract:: Ikhtiyaruddin Bakhtiyar Khilji’s conquest of Bengal completely changed the history of Bengal.
If he had not come to Bengal, I think the history of Bengal would have been affected differently. But what
happened or what did not happen is not a matter of history. Analyzing what has happened seems to be the
task of history. A student of history can say that the coming of Shah Sultan Balkhi and Shah Sultan
Makdum to Bengal for the purpose of spreading Islam right after Bakhtiar Khilji is a major event in
changing history. I think that if these two religious leaders did not come to Bengal, the refugees would
not have arrived in Raiganj of West Bengal. The task of history is to delve into or objectively find roots.
Failure to do so will either destroy the history or simply overload it with information. Under the influence
of these religious leaders who came from Afghanistan (?) and Baghdad (?), many people in Bangladesh
and Barendra Bhumi embraced Islam. It is a little difficult to say when Islam entered the Kamrup region
or North Bengal as a whole

Key Words:: Islam, Kamrup, Literature, Partition, Refugees, Raiganj etc.