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In 1430, the Bengal Sultanate restored the Arakanese throne in Mrauk U after driving out Burmese invaders who came from Bagan. The Kingdom of Mrauk U paid tributes to the Sultan of Bengal for a sustained period, with the timeframe ranging between estimates of a century or a few decades.
Based in the capital Mrauk-U, near the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal, the kingdom ruled over what is now Rakhine State, Myanmar, and the southern part of Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. Though it started out as a protectorate of the Bengal Sultanate from 1429 to 1531, Mrauk-U went on to conquer Chittagong with the help of the Portuguese.
The restoration of Min Saw Mon was a military campaign led by the Bengal Sultanate to help Min Saw Mon regain control of his Launggyet Dynasty.The campaign was successful. Min Saw Mon was restored to the Launggyet throne, and Arakan became a vassal state of the Bengal Sultana
The kingdom was founded as a vassal state of the Bengal Sultanate. It later asserted its independence from Bengal and adopted the customs of the Bengal Sultanate, including Muslim titles (nicknames) for its kings. All of the Kingdoms of Arakan were ruled by Buddhist kings; therefore, Buddhism was considered the state religion.
Having tested this, in 1430 he took a bolder step by including "Caliph of Allah" (Khalifat al-Allah) as one of his titles on his coins. [19] In 1431 AD he issued a new coin inscribing Kalema-tut-shahadat. [4] Thus he reintroduced on his coins the Kalimah, which had disappeared from Bengal Sultanate coins for several centuries.
Bengal and Northwest India. Bengal Sultanate: Sonargaon (complete list) – Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah, Sultan (1338–1349) Ikhtiyaruddin Ghazi Shah, Sultan (1349–1352) Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah, Sultan (1339–1342) Alauddin Ali Shah, Sultan (1339–1342) Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah, Sultan (1342–1352) Bengal Sultanate: Ilyas Shahi dynasty (complete ...
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah [a] was a Turk [2] who founded the Sultanate of Bengal and its inaugural Ilyas Shahi dynasty. The Ilyas Shahi Dynasty ruled Bengal for 145 years (1342–1487), except for a 21-year interregnum by the descendants of Raja Ganesha. Ilyas Shah was instrumental in unifying the principalities of Bengal into a single state. [3]
However, the Bengal Sultanate collapsed not long after, after the last Karrani ruler, Sultan Daud Khan Karrani was defeated by the Mughal emperor Akbar at the Battle of Rajmahal in 1576, [11] transforming Bengal into a confederacy of chieftains known as the Baro-Bhuiyans.