BĪNEŠ KAŠMĪRĪ, ESMĀʿĪL, a Persian poet of India in the 11th/17th century. His ancestors migrated from Iran to settle in…

BHANDĀRĪ, SOJĀN RĀY, putative author of Ḵolāṣat al-tawārīḵ, a general history of India written in Persian during the reign of…

BHAGVĀN DĀS HENDĪ, son of Dalpat Dās, grandson of Harbans Rāy, Indian poet and author writing in Persian. He belonged…

BENGAL i. Persian Muslim elements in the history of Bengal. (For Persian elements in Bengali language and literature, see Supplement.)…

BAYRAM (or BAYRĀM) KHAN, Moḥammad Ḵān(-e) Ḵānān, an illustrious and powerful Iranian noble at the court of the Mughal emperors…

BAHMANID DYNASTY, a dynasty founded in 748/1347 in the Deccan (Sanskrit Dakṣiṇa, lit. right hand; Prakrit Dakkhin, lit. south; Persian…