The buried palace of Gaur SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY in Malda Excavations in Malda throw light on the architecture and engineering of Gaur, the capital of the medieval Muslim rulers of north Bengal. PICTURES: SUSHANTA PATRONOBISH The Bais Gazi wall, which surrounds the palace area. IN his book Memoirs of Gaur and Pandua, the historian Khan Sahib Abid Ali, who himself hailed from Malda, wrote: "Excavations have been made in different parts of the ruined city by village cultivators in search of treasure, which have revealed traces of spacious halls, pavements, staircases, subterranean passages, and a good many other relics, all...