Mughal conquest of Bengal

Mughal conquest of Bengal
	Part of Mughal conquests
	; Akbar's general informs him of the conquest of Bengal in 1576, from the "History of Akbar" (Akbarnama), by Abu’l-Fazl. Inscribed to 'Inayat Khanazad, Agra, India, c. 1603-1605
Date	1574–1613; 1665—1666
Location	Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam
Result	Mughal victory Fall of Bengal Sultanate; Fall of Bhulua Kingdom; Fall of Koch Hajo; Vassalization of Koch Bihar;
Territorial; changes	Full territorial changes 1574: Patna, Hajipur, Surajgarh, Mungir, Bhagalpur, Kahlgaon, Tanda, Ghoraghat annexed to the Mughal Empire ; 1575: de jure annexation of Bengal Sultanate following the Battle of Tukaroi. The territory was divided between the Koch Kingdom and the Bengal Subah ; 1580: Rebels seize Bengal and Bihar from the Mughal Empire ; 1580–1587: Mughal recapture of Bihar and Bengal and subsequent campaigns ; 1590–1593: Mughal conquest of Odisha ; 1600: Rebels temporarily seize north Odisha ; 1608–1613: Conquest of Bikrampur, Sonargaon, Sripur, Bhulua, Bakla, Jessore, Sylhet in east Bengal, Cooch Behar and Kamrup ; 1665—1666: Mughal conquest of Chittagong ;
Belligerents
Bengal Sultanate (1574–1576); Baro-Bhuyan (1576–1612); Mughal rebels; Supported by:; Koch Hajo; Dimasa Kingdom; Kingdom of Mrauk U	Mughal Empire; Kingdom of Amber; Koch Bihar; Awadh Subah; ;
Commanders and leaders
Daud Khan Karrani Commanders and others: Junaid Khan Karrani †; Kalapahar †; Isa Khan #; Jahan Khan †; Sulaiman Mankali †; Srihari; Gujar Khan †; Babu Mankali; Gajapati Shah; Qutlu Lohani #; Mahmud Khan Khas-khel ; Ibrahim Maral ; Karim-dad Musazai ; Majlis Dilawar; Majlis Qutb ; Dalpat Shah; Bahadur Kheshgi †; Bahadur Kuruh; Yusuf bin Mati Afghan; Nasir Khan ; Khwajah Sulaiman Lohani †; Kedar Ray †; Jalal Khan; Qazi Mamin †; Khwaja Usman; Musa Khan; Mirza Mumin; Dariya Khan †; Madhu Ray; Shams Khan; Salim Khan; Raja Satrajit; Pratapaditya (until 1609); Raja Ray; Binod Ray; Abdullah Khan; Mahmud Khan; Bahadur Ghazni ; Sona Ghazi; Anwar Ghazi; Shaikh Pir; Pahlwan; Haji Shams-ud-din Baghdadi (until 1611); Daud Khan †; Alaul Khan; Ananta Manikya; Mirza Yusuf Barlas ; Raghu Dev; Mughal rebels List: Masum Khan Kabuli #; Baba Qaqshal ; Bahadur Badakhshi ; Dastam Qaqshal ; Tahir Ilanchaq ; Jabbari ; Khabita †; Tarkhan Diwana; Nur Muhammad †; Khwajah Abdur Ghafur †; Sher Afghan Khan; Lachin Khan Qaqshal #; Ali Akbar †;	Akbar; Jahangir; Aurangzeb Commanders: Man Singh I; Jagat Singh (WIA); Durjan Singh †; Himmat Singh #; Maha Singh; Pratap Singh; Munim Khan #; Muzaffar Khan Turbati †; Khan Jahan I; Raja Todar Mal; Majnun Khan Qaqshal; Muhammad Quli Barlas #; Shah Bardi #; Shahbaz Khan Kamboh; Muhib Ali Khan; Tarsun Khan †; Azam Khan Koka; Sadiq Khan; Muhammad Nijat Khan; Wazir Khan #; Sayyid Husain (POW); Habib Ali †; S'aid Khan #; Bika Bathor †; Mahesh Das †; Nam Charan †; Vir Hambir Singh; Abdur Razzaq Ma'muri (POW); Baz Bahadur Qalmaq; Sher Ghazni; Sultan Quli Qalmaq; Ibrahim Beg Atka; Raghudas; Askarn; Dalpat Rao; Qutubuddin Koka †; Sazawal Khan Niyazi †; Shaikh Kamal; Iftikhar Khan; Pratapaditya (from 1609); Sangramaditya; Tuqmaq Khan; Mirak Bahadur Jalair; Shaikh Habibullah; Shaikh Abdul Wahid; Shaikh Rukn; Jahan Khan Pani; Haji Shams-ud-din Baghdadi (from 1611); Mirza Nuru’d-Din; Mirza Isfandaryar; Khwaja 'Asl; Adil Beg; Mirza Beg; Nara Narayan; Lakshmi Narayan; Chilarai;
Strength
1582: 5,000; 1601: 5,000 infantry; 500 cavalry; 1609: 200 boats; 700 boats	1574: 20,000; 1582: 2,000; 1583: 4,000 cavalry; 3,000 artillerymen; 1608: 295 elephants; 2,000 cavalry; 4,000 musketeers; 1609: 20 boats, 2,000 musketeers, 50 artillery; 1611: 4,000 cavalry; 3,000 matchlocks; 50 elephants
Casualties and losses
1574: 265 elephants captured; 1580: 300 boats captured; 1585: 1300 killed; 1593: 300 killed	Unknown

The Mughal conquest of Bengal was a series of campaigns against the Sultanate of Bengal, then ruled by the Afghan Karrani dynasty, by the Mughal Empire from 1574 to 1612. The Mughals initially defeated the Sultanate of Bengal in the Battle of Raj Mahal in 1576, but the annexation of the region into their empire as the province of Bengal took in the subsequent periods.