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Power Politics in the Governance of Bengal Sultanate

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Bengal Sultanate: Sultanate of Bengal, medieval period of Bengal, medieval Bengal; Muslim scholar: Shaikh, religious leader; Ghiyath al Din Azam Shah: Ghiyas-ud-Din Azam

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Many of historical events of medieval period of Bengal remains disputed among modern scholars because of lack of contemporary commentary from Bengal. What we know about Bengal today are based mostly on numismatic evidences and stone inscriptions. Commentaries of contemporary foreign historians and travelers also have been used as reference. Most quoted contemporary commentaries that have descriptions about Bengal are Ain-i-Akbari, Tabaqat-i-Akbari, Tarikh-i-Firishta, and travel of Ibn Battuta (Ali 1985; Sarkar 1948). But in those sources, Bengal came as a short reference when there was an incidence of Delhi or other sultanates with Bengal or when the respective traveler had a visit to Bengal. Therefore, those historical records cover a very small part of the whole history of medieval period of...

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  1. Institute of Business Administration, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

    Md. Shariful Islam

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Islam, M.S. (2016). Power Politics in the Governance of Bengal Sultanate. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2486-1

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