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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 ...
Mahmud was born in the 14th-century into an aristocratic Bengali Muslim Sunni family in the Bengal Sultanate. His forefathers – the Ilyas Shahis – were the inaugural dynasty of Bengal. Despite his family's long presence in the region, Mahmud's ancestors were of Sistani origin, hailing from what is now eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan .
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.
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
Mahmud Shah II 1489-1490; Shamsuddin Muzaffar Shah 1490-1494; Hussain Shahi dynasty (1494–1538) Alauddin Hussain Shah 1494-1518; Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah 1518-1533; 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
After the death of the last sultan of Hussain Shahi dynasty Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah in 1538, the liberated sultanate of Bengal reached its end. Despite occupying the capital city of Gaur , Humayun , the second emperor of the Mughal Empire, was able to hold the control for only a short period of time.
Ghiyath was born in 1140 CE; [1] he was the son of Baha al-Din Sam I, who briefly reigned as king of the Ghurid dynasty in 1149.According to the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri by Minhaj al-Siraj, his birth name like his younger sibling Muhammad of Ghor was "Muhammad".