Bengal Subah
Bengal Subah, sometimes called Mughal Bengal, was a part of the Mughal Empire between 1500 and 1700. It included places like Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura. At one time, this area was one of the wealthiest parts of the world.[3]
| Subah of Bengal صوبه بنگاله (Persian) সুবাহ বাংলা (Bengali) | |||||
| subdivision of Mughal Empire | |||||
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| Capital city | |||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||
| - | Battle of Raj Mahal | 1576 | |||
| - | Nawabs of Bengal | 1717 | |||
| - | Battle of Plassey | 1757 | |||
| Today part of | |||||
Bengal Subah Media
Dutch East India Company factory in Hugli-Chuchura, Bengal by Hendrik van Schuylenburgh (c. 1665)
Akbar developed the modern Bengali calendar
Dhaka, the capital of Bengal, was named Jahangir Nagar in honor of the fourth Mughal monarch Jahangir
Robert Clive meets Mir Jafar at the Battle of Plassey in 1757
Shah Alam II granting Robert Clive the "Diwani rights of Bengal, Behar and Odisha" in return for the annexed territories of the Nawab of Awadh after the Battle of Buxar, on 12 August 1765 at the Benares.
Bengali curved roofs were copied by Mughal architects in other parts of the empire, such as in the Naulakha Pavilion in Lahore
Nimtoli Deuri, named after the neem tree, is now a property of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, situated in Dhaka, Bangladesh is now a Heritage Museum.
References
- ↑ "Dhaka - national capital, Bangladesh". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ↑ "Rajmahal - India". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ↑ Lex Heerma van Voss; Els Hiemstra-Kuperus; Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (2010). "The Long Globalization and Textile Producers in India". The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000. Ashgate Publishing. p. 255. ISBN 9780754664284.
