Bengal UnfoldedA Bilingual Gazette
ENBN
Battle of Plassey, 1757
1757 · Plassey
Language Movement, 1952
1952 · Language
Liberation War, 1971
1971 · Liberation
Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi movement, 1905
1905 · Partition
❦

Discover Bengal · Unfolded

❦

Shashanka

✦

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica reference for Shashanka as king of Gauda and early 7th-century power expansion in the Bengal region.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Category

✦

reference-sources · Encyclopedia and Archive Reference

Creator ProfileView Original Source
Topic Hub: Explore related topics - Ancient Bengal and Urban Civilization

Referenced In Events

✦

Timeline View

Early 7th century

Shashanka and the Gauda Kingdom

In the early 7th century, Shashanka, king of Gauda, expanded authority over a substantial part of the Ganges valley and represented one of the earliest major sovereign political formations centered on Bengal.