Shah gauda

The Shah gauda line was the short-lived sultanate of Alauddin Ali Shah, born Ali Mubarak into a Turco-Persian Muslim noble family. He moved to Bengal, where he became army administrator of Qadar Khan, the Delhi governor of Lakhnauti. When Qadar Khan was killed fighting Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah of Sonargaon, Ali Shah murdered the deputy governor left behind and, around 1339, made himself independent ruler of Lakhnauti.

Bengal was now split three ways, between Ali Shah at Gaur, Fakhruddin at Sonargaon and Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah at Satgaon. Ali Shah moved his capital from Lakhnauti to Hazrat Pandua.

In 1342 he was defeated and killed in battle against Ilyas Shah. Ilyas Shah went on to unite the whole of Bengal under the Bengal Sultanate.