Bangladesh came to
today's figure from end to end a long history of political growth. Bengal was most
likely the wealthiest piece of the subcontinent up till the 16th century. The
area's before time history featured a progression of Indian empires, internal power
struggle, and a clash between Hinduism and Buddhism for dominance. All of this
was just a prologue to the unstoppable tide of Islam which washed over northern
India at the end of the 12th century. Mohammed Bakhtiar Khalzhi from Turkistan
captured Bengal in 1199 among only 20 men.
Under the Mughal
viceroys, art and literature flourished, overland do business prolonged and
Bengal was opened to world marine trade - the latter marking the death knell of
Mughal power as Europeans began to set up themselves in the region. The
Portuguese arrived as near the beginning as the 15th century but were ousted in
1633 by local opponent. The East India Company negotiated terms to found a
fortified trading post in Calcutta in 1690.
The turn down of
Mughal power led to greater regional autonomy, heralding the rise of the sovereign
rule of the nawabs of Bengal. poor East India Company clerk Robert Clive
ended up successfully ruling Bengal when one of the impulsive nawabs
attacked the booming British commune in Calcutta and overfed those ill-fated
enough not to get away in an subversive basement. Clive retook Calcutta a year
later and the British administration replaced the East India Company following
the Indian revolution in 1857.
The Britons recognized
an secretarial and social formation unequaled in Bengal, and Calcutta became
one of the most main centers for trade, tutoring and civilization in the
subcontinent. However, many Bangladeshi historians charge the British autocratic
farming policies and endorsement of the semi-feudal zamindar organism
for demanding the county of its prosperity and negative its social structure.
The British existence was a help to the marginal Hindus but a tragedy for the
Muslims. The Hindus cooperated with the Brits, inflowing British learning
institutions and studying the English language, but the Muslims refused to
cooperate, and rioted when crops disastrous or another local product was
rendered unbeneficial by government strategy.