Independent Development of the Bengal Sultanate

Name: Independent Development of the Bengal Sultanate
Start: 1351
End: 1360

Type Event Region Bengal Time 1351–1360

In the 1350s, Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah unified local powers in Bengal, proclaimed himself sultan in 1352, and founded an independent Bengal Sultanate.

Timeline

1351–1352Eastern Bengal · BengalIn the early 1350s, Ilyas Shah defeated or brought to submission the various rival rajas across Bengal, ending the divided situation and bringing the Ganges Delta to the eastern hill country under a unified rule.
1352Pandua · BengalIn 1352 Ilyas Shah proclaimed himself sultan at Pandua, declared Bengal free of the Delhi Sultanate's overlordship, founded the independent Bengal Sultanate, and inaugurated the rule of the Ilyas Shah dynasty.
1353–1360Pandua · BengalIlyas Shah constructed grand buildings such as the Adina Mosque at Pandua and established an Islamic administrative system while preserving Bengal's local languages and cultural traditions, giving the new sultanate local legitimacy and enabling it to resist Delhi's intervention.

The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans — Wolseley Haig (1928)
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ilyās Shāh dynasty https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ilyas-Shah-dynasty