Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah I ( bn, গিয়াসউদ্দিন বাহাদুর শাহ, fa, غیاث الدین بهادر شاه) was the son and successor of Sultan
Shamsuddin Firoz Shah
Shamsuddin Firuz Shah ( fa, شمس الدين فيروز شاه, bn, শামসুদ্দীন ফিরুজ শাহ, ''Shams Ad-Dīn Firūz Shāh'') (reigned: 1301–1322) was the independent ruler of the Gauḍa (city), Lakhnauti Ki ...
of the
Bengal kingdom of
Lakhnauti. He ruled the kingdom as an independent ruler during 1322-1324 CE and as a governor during 1324-1328 CE.
History
Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah issued coins when his father was still living. On the death of his father he ascended the throne in 1322.
Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq ) (Ghazi means 'fighter for Islam')ref name="sen2"> (died c.1325) was the Sultan of Delhi from 1320 to 1325. He was the first sultan of the Tughluq dynasty. During his reign, Ghiyath al-Din Tughlu ...
, Sultan of Delhi, declared war against him in 1324. After losing the battle, Bahadur Shah was captured and taken to
Delhi as a prisoner.
Bengal was thus turned into a province of the Delhi Sultanate.
In the same year, Delhi Sultan
Muhammad bin Tughlaq
Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290 – 20 March 1351) was the eighteenth Sultan of Delhi. He reigned from February 1325 until his death in 1351. The sultan was the eldest son of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, founder of the Tughlaq dynasty. In 1321, the youn ...
, son and successor of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, released him and appointed him to govern
Sonargaon as a province. Bahadur Shah founded a new city, Ghiyaspur, at a site 24 Kilometre southwest of present-day
Mymensingh.
He asserted independence in 1328. Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq sent his general,
Bahram Khan
Bahram Khan was the governor of Sonargaon, East Bengal (now Bangladesh), from 1328 until 1337. He was a general of Delhi Sultanate. He was also appointed the governor of Satgaon during 1324–1328.
Sonargaon ruler
Khan contributed to th ...
, to depose him. In the battle, Bahadur Shah was defeated and killed. Bahram Khan recaptured Sonargaon for the Delhi Sultanate and he became the governor of Sonargaon.
See also
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List of rulers of Bengal
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History of Bengal
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History of India
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References
Sultans of Bengal
1328 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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