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 CHAP. VII. BENGAL. 261 seen as it is, and in this respect there are none of the ancient capitals of India which produce a more striking, and at the same time a more profoundly melancholy, impression than these ruins of the old Afghan capital of Bengal. 1 1 The clearance of undergrowth by the introduction of cultivation in 1879, and the attention of the Bengal Government to these remains since then have rendered them much more accessible.