India.Juanpur Sultanate.Silver tanka 1450-1451 yr.Alauddin Husain Shah.Lot 251

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India.Juanpur Sultanate.Billon,silver tanka. Alauddin Husain Shah 1450-1451 AD. Shipped with USPS First Class.
Size:16 mm
Weight:9.70 gm
Certificate of Authenticity included.
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Ala-ud-din Husain Shah
was an independent late medieval Sultan of Bengal, who founded the Hussain Shahi dynasty. He became the ruler of Bengal after assassinating the Abyssinian Sultan, Shams-ud-Din Muzaffar Shah, whom he had served under as wazir. After his death in 1519 his son Nusrat Shah succeeded him. The reigns of Husain Shah and Nusrat Shah are generally regarded as the “golden age” of the Bengal sultanate.
°The Hussain Shahi dynasty ruled from 1494 to 1538. Alauddin Husain Shah, considered as the greatest of all the sultans of Bengal for bringing a cultural renaissance during his reign. He conquered Kamarupa, Kamata, Jajnagar, and Orissa and extended the sultanate all the way to the port of Chittagong, which witnessed the arrival of the first Portuguese merchants. Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah gave refuge to the Afghans during the invasion of Babur though he remained neutral. The Hindu people of Bengal gave him the titles of Nripati Tilak and jagatbhusan. He was also known as Akbar of Bengal. He encourage the translation of Sanskrit literature in Bengali. He built a famous mosque named chota sona masjid.
However, Nasrat Shah made a treaty with Babur and saved Bengal from a Mughal invasion. The last Sultan of the dynasty, who continued to rule from Sonargaon, had to contend with rising tribal pashtun activity on his northwestern border. Eventually, the pashtun tribals broke through and sacked the capital in 1538 where they remained for several decades until the arrival of Mughal dynasty.
°The Jaunpur Sultanate was an independent Islamic state in northern India between 1394 and 1479, whose rulers ruled from Jaunpur in the present day state of Uttar Pradesh. The Jaunpur Sultanate was ruled by the Sharqi dynasty. The Khwajah-i-Jahan Malik Sarwar, the first ruler of the dynasty was a wazir under Sultan Nasiruddin Muhammad Shah IV Tughluq (1390–1394). In 1394, amidst the disintegration of the Delhi Sultanate, he established himself as an independent ruler of Jaunpur and extended his authority over Awadh and a large part of the Ganges-Yamuna Doab and replaced much of the Delhi Sultanate. The dynasty founded by him was named so because of his title Mālik-us-Śarq ("ruler of the East"). The most notable ruler of the dynasty was Ibrahim Shah