A wealthy, cosmopolitan Sunni Muslim sultanate ruling the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta under five unrelated dynasties, famed for its mint towns, maritime trade to Malacca and China, and its patronage of both Persian court culture and the first official use of Bengali.
Weakened by a Sur Empire interregnum, the Bengal Sultanate was conquered by the Mughal Empire in 1576 and its territory absorbed into Mughal Bengal, later fragmenting into petty successor kingdoms.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Bengal Sultanate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1352 · 1496 · 1515.
Standard scholarly account of Bengal's political and religious history across the Sultanate era and its Mughal aftermath.
Broad classic regional history whose Muslim-period volume covers the Ilyas Shahi, Ganesha, and Hussain Shahi dynasties in depth.