Fathabad

Fathabad was a mint town of the Bengal Sultanate, identified with Faridpur on the waterways of central Bengal. Its name appears on coins of the independent sultans, and the mint’s long life shows the town’s place in the circulation of silver across the delta. Persian records also use Fathabad for a wider sarkar, or fiscal district.

The mint was established in the early fifteenth century under Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah. It continued to issue coins under later rulers, including Alauddin Husain Shah. Portuguese writer João de Barros recorded the place as Fatiabas in the sixteenth century. The wider Mughal sarkar of Fathabad took its name from Sultan Fath Shah and included lands extending across the southern delta and islands near the Meghna estuary.