Bengal

Bengal was a sultanate in the Ganges and Brahmaputra delta, with capitals at Pandua and later Gaur. By 1338 governors in Bengal had broken away from Delhi.

The Ilyas Shahi dynasty united Bengal. In 1414 Sultan Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah sent a giraffe from East Africa to the Ming emperor. Akbar's army defeated the last independent sultan at Rajmahal in 1576; the British East India Company won at Plassey in 1757 and gained Bengal's revenue rights in 1765.