Bengal Sultanate

Sultanate of Bengal
سلطنت ا بنگال সুলতানাত-এ-বাঙাল
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The Sultanate of Bengal in 1500, including Bengal and parts of Bihar, Assam and Arakan
Capital		Gaur, Pandua, Sonargaon
Languages		Persian (official), Bengali, Arabic
Religion		Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
Government		Monarchy
History
-	Middle ages	1352
-	Early modern	1576
Currency		Tanka
Today part of		Bangladesh  Burma  India

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The Sixty Dome Mosque in Bagerhat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Old Gateway of Gaur

Tomb of Sultan Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah at Sonargaon.

Silver tanka of Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah

The Sona Mosque in Rajshahi

The Firoz Minar at Gaur

The pet giraffe of Saifuddin Hamza Shah, which was gifted to the Yongle Emperor of China as part of the growing relations between the sultanate and the Ming Dynasty.

Ruins of Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah's palace in Dinajpur

The Bengal Sultanate (Bengali: শাহী বাংলা; Persian: سلطنت ا بنگال, Sultanat e Bangala) was an independent medieval Indo-Islamic state established in Bengal in 1342. Its realm and influence extended across modern-day Bangladesh, East India and West Burma. The sultanate was dominated by numerous dynasties of Turkic, Arab, Persian, indigenous/Bengali and Abyssinian origin. It disintegrated at the end of the 16th-century and was absorbed into the pan-South Asian Mughal Empire and the Arakanese Kingdom of Mrauk U.

History

In 1342, a local warlord, Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah proclaimed himself as monarch of the Kingdom of Lakhnauti. He would go on to consolidate his rule by conquering the other independent kingdoms of Bengal before proclaiming himself as Sultan of Bengal in 1352.

The absorption of Bengal into the Mughal Empire was a gradual process beginning with the defeat of Bengali forces under Sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah by Babur at the battle of Ghaghra.

Sultans

Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1352-1414)

Bayazid Shahi dynasty (1413-1414)

House of Raja Ganesha (1414-1435)

Restored Ilyas Shahi dynasty (1435-1487)

Habshi rule (1487-1494)

Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494-1538)

Bengal Governors under Suri Empire (1532-1555)

Muhammad Shah dynasty (1554-1564)

Karrani dynasty (1564-1576)

Mint towns

Economy

Culture

Foreign relations

See also

• List of rulers of Bengal

References

• The Bengal Sultanate: Politics, Economy and Coins, A.D. 1205-1576, Syed Ejaz Hussain (2003)
• The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, Richard M. Eaton (1996)
• Sultans and Mosques: The Early Muslim Architecture of Bangladesh, Perween Hasan (2007)
• Between Integration and Secession: The Muslim Communities of the South Philippines, Southern Thailand and Western Burma/Myanmar, Moshe Yegar (2002), Part One: The Muslims of Arakan
• The Grammar of Sultanate Mosque in Bengal Architecture, Nujaba Binte Kabir (2012)