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1. ↑These hills are also known as the Patharia and Pratapgarh ranges respectively.3
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed2. ↑The _garh_ suffix roughly translates to "fort".7
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed3. ↑Both Shantipriya and Garuda committed suicide in the aftermath of the Conquest of Sylhet in 1303 AD.11
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed4. ↑There is some dispute about the identity of this king, who is unnamed in local histories. Choudhury believes that this ruler was Tulsidhaja, who reigned after 1730 AD.23 Alternatively, Upendra Guha suggests that it was Tamradhaja, who ruled a generation earlier, placing these events around 1708.32
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed5. ↑Aftab Uddin's paternal grandmother, the wife of Marhamat Khan, had been a daughter of a former lord of Jangalbari.19
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed6. ↑This group associated Pura Raja with a number of local legends where he is linked with the worship of fishing goddesses and ceremonial large-scale fishing, a religious festival which continued into modern times.48
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed7. ↑The title _badsah_ may have been applied to Hamja by the local population because of his temporal and political authority over the region.50
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗8. ↑A grandson of Syed Khudawand, ruler of Taraf.58
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed9. ↑A relative of Syed Qalandar.58
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed1. ↑Choudhury (2000), p.303.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed2. 1Nath (1948), p.81.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed3. ↑Das (2008), p.17.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed4. ↑Abbasi & Al Helal (1979), p.65.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed5. ↑Clothey (1982), p.126.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed6. ↑Nath (1948), pp.81, 119.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed7. 1Bhattacharjee (1982), p.2.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed8. ↑Allen (2013), p.62.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed9. 1Choudhury (2000), p.304.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed10. ↑Nath (1948), p.119.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed11. ↑Nath (1948), p.122.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed12. ↑Nazir (2013), p.92.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed13. ↑Choudhury (1980), p.237.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed14. ↑Choudhury (2000), p.305.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed15. ↑Duttchowdhury (2024), pp.80–86.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed16. ↑Choudhury (2000), pp.304–05.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed17. 1Choudhury (2000), p.306.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed18. ↑Chaudhury (1979), p.XI.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed19. 1Choudhury (2000), p.307.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed20. ↑Durlabhendra, Sukheshwar & Baneshwar (1999), p.60.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed21. ↑Choudhury (2000), p.308.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed22. ↑Sinha, Chacko & Aier (1993), p.41.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed23. 1Choudhury (2000), p.310.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed24. 1Kar (2008), p.135.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed25. ↑Bhattacharjee (1994), p.74.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed26. ↑Choudhury (2000), pp.214, 310.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed27. 1Motahar (1999), p.715.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed28. ↑Tarafdar (1999), p.376.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed29. ↑Allen (2013), p.94.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed30. ↑Ali (1965), p.69.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed31. ↑Guha (1971), p.81.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed32. ↑Guha (1971), p.73.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed33. ↑Choudhury (2000), p.311.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed34. 1Choudhury (2000), p.312.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed35. ↑Chaudhury (1979), p.XIV.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed36. ↑Choudhury (2000), p.312–13.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed37. ↑Choudhury (2000), p.313-16.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed38. ↑Bhattacharjee (2005), pp.176–77.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed39. ↑Bhattacharjee (2005), p.177.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed40. ↑Choudhury (2000), p.321.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed41. ↑Nazir (2013), pp.90–92.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed42. ↑Bhattacharjee (1994), p.66.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed43. ↑Bhattacharjee (1994), p.63.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed44. ↑Bhattacharjee (1986), p.81.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed45. ↑Agrawal & Kumar (2020), p.310.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed46. 1Choudhury (1996), p.37.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed47. ↑Nathan (1936), p.324.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed48. ↑Choudhury (1980), p.235.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed49. ↑Sanajaoba (1988), p.120.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed50. ↑Choudhury (1977), p.62.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed51. ↑Abbasi & Al Helal (1979), p.64.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed52. ↑Choudhury (1977), pp.62–63.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed53. ↑Bhattacharjee (1991), p.126.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed54. ↑Mali (1985), p.169.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed55. ↑Mittal (1984), p.73.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed56. ↑Choudhury (2000), pp.304–11.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed57. ↑Choudhury (2000), pp.304–313, 529.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed58. 1Choudhury (2006), p.342.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed* Agrawal, Ankush; Kumar, Vikas (2020), _Numbers in India's Periphery: Political Economy of Government Statistics: The Political Economy of Government Statistics_, India: Cambridge University Press, ISBN978-1-108-48672-9
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗* Allen, Basil Copleston (2013) 1905, _Assam District Gazetteers_, vol.2 (2nd ed.), Guwahati: Narayani Handiqui Historical Institute, ISBN9780343330132
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗* Bhattacharjee, J.B. (1994), "The Pre-Colonial Political Structure of Barak Valley", in Milton S. Sangma (ed.), _Essays on North-east India: Presented in Memory of Professor V. Venkata Rao_, New Delhi: Indus Publishing, ISBN978-81-7387-015-6
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗* Bhattacharjee, Jayanta Bhusan (1991), _Social and polity formations in pre-colonial north-east India: the Barak Valley experience_, New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications in association with Vikas Pub. House, ISBN9780706954647
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗* Duttchowdhury, Habib Ahmed (2024), _ভারতবর্ষের ইতিহাসে শ্রীহট্টের প্রতাপগড় রাজ্য_ (in Bengali), Dhaka: মোস্তফা সেলিম উৎস প্রকাশন, ISBN978-984-97871-7-4
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed* Kar, Subira (2008), _1857 in North East: a reconstruction from folk and oral sources_, New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, ISBN978-81-8370-131-0
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗* Motahar, Hosne Ara (1999), "Museum Establishment and Heritage Preservation: Sylhet Perspective", in Sharif Uddin Ahmed (ed.), _Sylhet: History and Heritage_, Sylhet: Bangladesh Itihas Samiti, ISBN978-984-31-0478-6
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗* Sanajaoba, Naorem (1988), _Manipur, Past and Present: The Heritage and Ordeals of a Civilization_, vol.4, New Delhi: Mittal Publications, ISBN978-81-7099-853-2
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗* Sinha, Awadhesh Coomar; Chacko, Pariyaram Mathew; Aier, I. L. (1993), _Hill cities of eastern Himalayas: ethnicity, land relations and urbanisation_, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, ISBN978-81-85182-80-3
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