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Bengal Sultanate Independence and Unification

By the mid-fourteenth century, Bengal came under a unified and effectively sovereign sultanate polity, commonly associated with the consolidation of Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah. This marked a major shift from fragmented regional authority to a distinct Bengal state with its own political center and durable institutional identity.