A breakaway sultanate founded by Khwajah-i-Jahan Malik Sarwar, a former Tughlaq wazir, amid the Delhi Sultanate's collapse; it controlled much of the Ganges-Yamuna Doab (modern Uttar Pradesh/Bihar and southern Nepal) and became a noted center of Islamic learning under the later Sharqi dynasty.
Defeated by Bahlul Lodi of the Delhi Sultanate's Lodi dynasty at Benares in 1494; the last sultan Hussain Shah Sharqi fled to Bihar, ending Sharqi Jaunpur as an independent power.
Covers the Tughlaq dynasty's disintegration that produced breakaway successor states including Jaunpur, 'The Sharqi Monuments of Jaunpur' (1922), exists but covers buildings, not the polity's political history).
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