174 PROVINCIAL DYNASTIES

province, together with part of Bihar, and latterly Jajnagar, Orissa, Tipara, Kamrup, and Chittagong, from the days of Mohammad Ghori (1202) to the conquest GOLDEN MOSQUE AT GAUK. by Akbar in 1576. Some were Khaljis, some were Turks; a Hindu established a brief dynasty which was converted to Islam; and at the close of the fifteenth century a series of Abyssinian kings, derived from the African body-guard imported by the eunuch Sultan