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Ancient Bengal was the site of several major Janapadas (kingdoms), while the earliest cities date back to the Vedic period. A thalassocracy and an entrepôt of the historic Silk Road, [1] ancient Bengal had strong trade links with Persia, Arabia and the Mediterranean that focused on its lucrative cotton muslin textiles. [2]
This is a list of rulers of Bengal.For much of its history, Bengal was split up into several independent kingdoms, completely unifying only several times. In ancient times, Bengal consisted of the kingdoms of Pundra, Suhma, Vanga, Samatata and Harikela.
Vaṅga was an ancient kingdom and geopolitical division within the Ganges delta in the Indian subcontinent. [1] The kingdom is one of the namesakes of the Bengal region. [2] It was located in eastern and southern Bengal. Vanga features prominently in the epics and tales of ancient India as well as in the history of Sri Lanka.
The Gauḍa kingdom (Gauṛa Rājya) (Bengali : গৌড় রাজ্য) was a kingdom during the Classical era in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the Gauda region of Bengal (modern-day West Bengal and Bangladesh) [2] [3] in 4th century CE or possibly earlier. [4]
The Bengal Sultanate had a circle of vassal states in the Indian subcontinent, including parts of Odisha in the southwest, Arakan in the southeast, [7] and Tripura in the east. [8] The Bengal Sultanate controlled large parts of the eastern South Asia during its five dynastic periods, reaching its peak under Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah.
The name of Bengal is derived from the ancient kingdom of Vanga (pronounced Bôngô), [16] [17] the earliest records of which date back to the Mahabharata epic in the first millennium BCE. [17] The reference to 'Vangalam' is present in an inscription in the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, which is one of the oldest references to Bengal. [18]
Tamralipta in West Bengal was the main seaport of the Magadha-centered Maurya Empire. [6] Most of the West Bengal's territory was ruled under the Gupta Empire, that arose in northern India after the collapse of the Magadha-centric empires. In Bengal, the Gaur kingdom was established in 690 AD, which spread across West Bengal and present-day ...
The Varman Dynasty (also known as Yadava-Varman) [1] was a Hindu Yadava [2] dynasty of Indian subcontinent which ruled Bengal, [3] and later East Bihar (Anga). [4] The Varmans established their supremacy after replacing the Chandra Dynasty. [5] Their capital was at Bikrampur in present-day Munshiganj District of Bangladesh. [6] [7]