Sejarah Benggala

Sejarah Benggala meliputi sejarah Bangladesh dan Benggala Barat.^[1]

Alat-alat zaman batu berusia 20.000 tahun telah ditemukan di Benggala,^[2] sementara sisa pemukiman Zaman Perunggu ditemukan berusia 4.000 tahun.^[3]

Penguasa Benggala

Raja-raja Gauda

• Shashanka (c. 600-625)
• Manava^[4]

Dinasti Pala

• Gopala (750 - 770)
• Dharmapala (770 - 810)
• Devapala (810 - 850)
• Mahendrapala (850 - 854)
• Vigrahapala (854 - 855)
• Narayanapala (855 - 908)
• Rajyapala (908 - 940)
• Gopala II (940 - 960)
• Vigrahapala II (960 - 988)
• Mahipala (988 - 1038)
• Nayapala (1038–1055)
• Vigrahapala III (1055–1070)
• Mahipala II (1070–1075)
• Shurapala II (1075–1077)
• Ramapala (1077–1130)
• Kumarapala (1130–1140)
• Gopala III (1140–1144)
• Madanapala (1144–1162)
• Govindapala (1162–1174)

Dinasti Sena

• Hemanta Sen (1070–1096)
• Vijay Sen (1096–1159)
• Ballal Sen (1159–1179)
• Lakshman Sen (1179–1206)
• Vishwarup Sen (1206–1225)
• Keshab Sen (1225–1230)

Sultan Benggala

Dinasti Ilyas (periode pertama)

• Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah (1342–1358)
• Sikandar Shah I (1358–1390)
• Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah (1390–1411)
• Saifuddin Hamza Shah (1411–1412)
• Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah (1412–1414)

Dinasti Ganesha

• Raja Ganesha (1414–1415 and 1416–1418)
• Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah (1415–1416 dan 1418–1433)
• Shamsuddin Ahmad Shah (1433–1435)

Dinasti Ilyas

• Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (1435–1459)
• Rukunuddin Barbak Shah (1459–1474)
• Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah (1474–1481)
• Sikandar Shah II (1481)
• Jalaluddin Fateh Shah (1481–1487)

Penguasa Abyssinia

• Saifuddin Firuz Shah (1487–1490)
• Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah (1490–1491)
• Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah (1491–1494)

Dinasti Hussain Shahi

• Alauddin Hussain Shah (1494–1519)
• Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah (1519–1533)
• Alauddin Firuz Shah (1533)
• Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah (1533–1538)

Dinasti Karrani

• Sulaiman Khan Karrani (1564–1572)
• Bayazid Khan Karrani (1572)
• Daoud Shah Karrani (1572–1576)

Nawab Benggala

• Murshid Quli Khan (1717–1727)
• Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan (1727–1739)
• Sarfaraz Khan (1739–1740)
• Alivardi Khan (1740–1756)
• Siraj-ud-Daula (1756–1757)
• Mir Jafar Ali Khan (1757–1760)
• Mir Qasim (1760–1763)
• Mir Jafar Ali Khan (1763–1765)
• Najimuddin Ali Khan (1765–1766)
• Najabut Ali Khan (1766–1770)
• Ashraf Ali Khan (1770-1770)
• Mubaraq Ali Khan (1770–1793)
• Baber Ali Khan (1793–1810)
• Zainul Abedin Ali Khan (1810–1821)
• Ahmad Ali Khan (1821–1824)
• Mubarak Ali Khan II (1824–1838)
• Mansur Ali Khan (1838-1880)

Referensi

1. "History of Bangladesh". Bangladesh Student Association. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2006-12-19. Diakses tanggal 2006-10-26. 
2. Sarkar, Sebanti (March 28, 2008). "History of Bengal just got a lot older" (jsp). The Telegraph. Kolkata: The Telegraph. Diakses tanggal September 13, 2010. Humans walked on Bengal’s soil 20,000 years ago, archaeologists have found out, pushing the state’s pre-history back by some 8,000 years. 
3. Bharadwaj, G (2003). "The Ancient Period". Dalam Majumdar, RC. History of Bengal. B.R. Publishing Corp. 
4. Prasad Sinha, Bindeshwari (1977). Dynastic History of Magadha. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. hlm. 133. 

Bacaan lanjut

• Majumdar, R. C. The History of Bengal ISBN 81-7646-237-3
• Dr. Sailen Debnath, West Bengal in Doldrums, ISBN 978-81-86860-34-2
• Dr. Sailen Debnath, Social and Political Tensions in North Bengal, ISBN 81-86860-23-1
• Dr. Sailen Debnath, Essays on Cultural History of North Bengal, ISBN 978-81-86860-42-7
• Amiya Sen (1993). Hindu Revivalism in Bengal 1872-1905: Some Essays in Interpretation. Oxford University Press. 

Pranala luar

• A discussion group
• A systematic history
• A short history