The Bengalis (বাঙালি Bangali), History Series #02 Midle Age History of Bengal

Medieval times :

One of the main recorded free lords of Bengal was Shashanka, ruling around the mid seventh century. After a time of political agitation, Gopala came to control in 750. He established the Bengali Buddhist Pala Empire which controlled the area for four hundred years, and extended crosswise over a lot of Southern Asia: from Assam in the upper east, to Kabul in the west, and to Andhra Pradesh in the south. Atisha was a famous Bengali Buddhist instructor who was instrumental in the restoration of Buddhism in Tibet and furthermore held the position of Abbot at the Vikramshila college. Tilopa was likewise from Bengal locale.

The Pala administration was later trailed by a shorter rule of the Hindu Sena Empire. Islam was acquainted with Bengal in the twelfth century by Sufi teachers. Consequent Muslim victories helped spread Islam all through the locale. Bakhtiar Khilji, a Turkic general of the Slave line of Delhi Sultanate, vanquished Lakshman Sen of the Sena administration and vanquished expansive parts of Bengal. Thus, the area was governed by lines of sultans and medieval masters under the Bengal Sultanate for the following couple of hundred years. Islam was acquainted with the Sylhet area by the Muslim holy person Shah Jalal in the mid fourteenth century. Mughal general Man Singh vanquished parts of Bengal including Dhaka amid the season of Emperor Akbar. A couple of Rajput tribes from his armed force for all time settled around Dhaka and encompassing terrains. Afterward, in the mid seventeenth century, Islam Khan vanquished all of Bengal. In any case, organization by governors selected by the court of the Mughal Empire offered approach to semi-autonomy of the territory under the Nawabs of Murshidabad, who ostensibly regarded the power of the Mughals in Delhi. After the debilitating of the Mughal Empire with the passing of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, Bengal was administered autonomously by the Nawabs until 1757, when the area was added by the East India Company after the Battle of Plassey.