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Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah and his Portuguese allies were defeated by Sher Shah Suri on 6 April 1538, as his appeals to the Mughal Emperor Humayun went unanswered. [1] Ghiyasuddin died of wounds sustained during the siege of Gaur by Sher Shah Suri, and grief after learning two of his sons had been executed by the Afghans. [3] [4]
The last Sultan of the dynasty, Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah, who continued to rule from Sonargaon, had to contend with rising Afghan activity on his northwestern border. Eventually, the Afghans under the Sur Empire broke through and sacked the capital in 1538 where they remained for several decades, successively establishing two independent ...
Alauddin Firuz Shah II 1533; Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah 1533-1538; Muhammad Shahi dynasty (1554–64) Shamsuddin Muhammad Shah 1554-1555; Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah I 1555-1561; Ghiyasuddin Jalal Shah 1561-1563; Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah II 1563-1564; Karrani dynasty (1564–76) Taj Khan Karrani 1564-1565; Sulaiman Khan Karrani 1565-1572
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah: 1435–1459 Rukunuddin Barbak Shah: 1459–1474 Son of Mahmud Shah Shamsuddin Yusuf Shah: 1474–1481 Son of Barbak Shah Nuruddin Sikandar Shah: 1481 Son of Mahmud Shah Jalaluddin Fateh Shah: 1481–1487 Son of Mahmud Shah
Sultan Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah constructed a highway from Chittagong to Chandpur and ordered the construction of many lavish mosques and tombs. After the defeat of the Sultan of Bengal Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah in the hands of Sher Shah Suri in 1538, the Arakanese Kingdom of Mrauk U managed to regain Chittagong.
Sher Khan abruptly attacked the combined forces of the Lohani chiefs of Bihar and Mohamud Shah of Bengal and defeated them at Surajgarh in March 1534. In this battle Ibrahim Khan was defeated and killed and Jalal Khan was forced to return to his patron Mahmud Shah. [5] Sher Shah invaded the whole Bihar with the victory. [6]
Ghiyath Shah (1469–1500), second Sultan of the Khilji dynasty of Malwa; Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah (deposed 1538), last sultan of the Hussain Shahi dynasty of Bengal; Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah II (r. 1555–1561), Sultan of Bengal; Ghiyasuddin Jalal Shah (died 1563), Sultan of Bengal; Muhammed Ghiya'as ud-din (fl. 1766–1773), Sultan of the Maldives
Ghiyath Shah, also known as Ghiyas-ud-Din Shah or Ghiyasuddin, was a Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate in the fifteenth century. The son of his predecessor Mahmud Shah I , he reigned from 1469 to 1500. A military leader before his accession, he was known during his reign for his religious devotion and cultural life.