Bengal Subah
| Subah of Bengal | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| subdivision of Mughal Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1576–1757 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
 Mughal Bengal including present day Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| • Type | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• Battle of Raj Mahal | 1576 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• Nawabs of Bengal | 1717 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1757 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "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.
