Dynasty · 1198 – 1576
Bengal — the Delhi Governors and Independent Sultans
One row spanning the Delhi-appointed governors from Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji's 594/1198 conquest of Bihar and Bengal, through the independent Ilyas Shahi (from 740/1339) and Husain Shahi (from 898/1493) sultanates and the intervening Bengal rulers, to the Mughal absorption of Bengal in 984/1576.
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594–984/1198–1576 Bengal and Bihār
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founded a capital at Lakhnawati or Gawr in the frontier zone between Bihar and Bengal
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740/1339 Ilyās Shāh, Shams al-Dīn, originally in Sātgā'on
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898/1493 Sayyid Husayn Shāh, 'Alā' al-Dīn
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in 984/1576 Bengal was overrun and incorporated in the Mughal empire