Volume1: Political History. Volume 2: Society Economy Culture

This groundbreaking 2 volume set extensively cover History, Epigraphy, Coins, Architecture, Art, Religion, Politics of bangladesh during Sultanate and Mughal Periods (c. 1200 to 1800 CE).

Contents: Vol. 1: Political History: Preface. Introduction. 1. Historical geography: expansion of Muslim rule/M. Delwar Hussain. 2. Trends of historiography. 3. Recently discovered epigraphic and numismatic sources. 4. Foundation of the Sultanate: Bakhtiyar Khalji/Abdul Momin Chowdhury. 5. Bengal Sultanate: the initial phase/A K M Shahnawaz. 6. Bengal and the Delhi Sultanate/A K M Shahnawaz. 7. Circumstances leading to the independence of Bengal/M. Delwar Hussain. 8. Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah/Muazzam Hussain Khan. 9. Shamsuddin Hyas Shan and his successors/ABM Shamsuddin Ahmed. 10. House of Raja Ganesha/A K M Shahnawaz. 11. Later Hyas Shahi Rulers/Sahidul Hasan. 12. The Habshi rule/AKM Khademul Haque. 13. Husain Shahi rule/Momtazur Rahman Tarafdar. 14. Sher Shah and his successors/Abdus Sayeed. 15. The Karranis/ ABM Shamsuddin Ahmed. 16. The Mughal conquest/A K M Shahnawaz and Hosne Ara Parveen. 17. The Bara-Bhuiyans/A A Sheikh Md. Asrarul Hoque Chisti. 18. The Mughal Subahdars/Abdul Momin Chowdhury and Sahidul Hasan. 19. Murshid Quli Khan and the Nawabs of Bengal/K M Mohsin. 20. The Naib-Nazims/Firoz Mahmud. 21. Administration: Sultanate and Mughal/Md. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan. 22. Political and Cultural Centres. 23. The Europeans in Bengal. Bibliography. Abbreviations. Index.

Vol. 2: Society Economy Culture: Society: 1. Society and social stratification/Md Osman Ghani. 2. Social condition (1600-1800 C.E)/Mohammad Shah. 3. The aristocracy in Nababi Bengal/Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman Khan. 4. Dress and Muslim identity (1300-1600 CE)/Labiba Ali. 5. Sultans and their non-Muslim subjects/Abdul Karim. Economy: 6. Medieval agriculture: an archaeobotanical study/Mizanur Rahman. 7. Coins and coinage system/Sutapa Sinha. 8. The transition from ancient to medieval in Bengal’s monetary realms/John S. Deyell. 9. Crafts and economy: Bengal sultanate/Syed Ejaz Hussain. 10. Crafts and technology/A T M Shamsuzzoha. 11. The Golden Bengal Hypothesis: Facts and fiction/Akbar Ali Khan. 12. Partition in Bengal. 13. Aspects of inter-religious relations/Muhammed Shah Noorur Rahman. 14. Vernacular religious movements/Frank J. Korom. 15. Sufism in Bengal. 16. Caitanya and the Foundation of Gaudiya Vaisnavism/Tony K. Stewart. 17. The Bauls/Anwarul Karim. 18. Development of Bangla literature/Maniruzzaman. 19. Education/Rachana Chakraborty. 20. Urbanization process and planning/Md. Akhtaruzzaman. 21. Art and architecture. Bibliography. Abbreviations. Index.