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Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah II (also Khizr Khan Suri; 1555–1561) was an independent ruler of
Bengal Bengal ( ) is a Historical geography, historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the Eastern South Asia, eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Benga ...
. He was the son of Sultan Shamsuddin Muhammad Shah.KingListsFarEast
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Reign

Bahadur Shah came to power after deposing the governor Shahbaz Khan. During his reign, Bahadur Shah killed Muhammad Adil Shah in 1557. In his regime, coins (silver 'tanka') for Bengal sultanate were struck in the mint of
Arakan Arakan ( or ; , ), formerly anglicised as Aracan, is the historical geographical name for the northeastern coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, covering present-day Bangladesh and Myanmar. The region was called "Arakan" for centuries. It is ...
. Later Bahadur Shah tried to capture Jaunpur but he was defeated by
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forces.


See also

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List of rulers of Bengal This is a list of rulers of Bengal. For much of History of Bengal, its history, Bengal was split up into several independent kingdoms, completely unifying only several times. In Kingdoms of Ancient India, ancient times, Bengal consisted of the ...
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History of Bengal The history of Bengal is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It includes modern-day Bangladesh and the States and union territories of India, Indian stat ...
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History of India Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Sedentism, Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; ...


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