Bengal Subah, referred to as Mughal Bengal, was the largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, Indian state of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odissa between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Mughal Bengal was the wealthiest region in the Indian subcontinent, due to their thriving merchants, Seth's, Bankers and traders and its proto-industrial economy showed signs of driving an Industrial revolution.
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Mughal Bengal Subah has been variously described the "Paradise of Nations" and the "Golden Age of Mughal Bengal", due to its inhabitants' living standards and real wages, which were among the highest in the world.
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The eastern part of Mughal Bengal was globally prominent in industries such as textile manufacturing and shipbuilding, and it was a major exporter of silk and cotton textiles, steel, saltpeter, and agricultural and industrial produce in the world.
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Mughal Bengal was integrated into a powerful and prosperous empire; and shaped by imperial policies of pluralistic government.
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In 1717, the Mughal Court upgraded the prime minister's position to the hereditary Nawab of Bengal.
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Mughal Bengal continued to contribute the largest share of funds to the imperial treasury in Delhi.
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The Mughal Bengal-Bihar-Orissa triangle was a major production center for cotton muslin cloth, silk cloth, shipbuilding, gunpowder, saltpetre, and metalworks.
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Nawabs of Mughal Bengal entered into treaties with numerous European colonial powers, including joint-stock companies representing Britain, Austria, Denmark, France and the Netherlands.
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Mughal Bengal gained administrative control over the Nawab's dominions, including Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
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The Mughal Bengal Army built fortifications across the region, including Idrakpur Fort, Sonakanda Fort, Hajiganj Fort, Lalbagh Fort and Jangalbari Fort.
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Provincial Bengali style of Mughal painting flourished in Murshidabad during the 18th century.
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Mughal Bengal's population is estimated to have been 30 million prior to the Great Mughal Bengal famine of 1770, which reduced it by as much as a third.
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Mughal Bengal was a centre of the worldwide muslin, jute and silk trades.
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Mughal Bengal assesses ship repairing as very advanced in Bengal.
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In 1703, Murshid Quli Khan, then diwan of Mughal Bengal shifted his office from Dhaka to Maqsudabad and later renamed it Murshidabad.
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In 1717, the Mughal Bengal government replaced Viceroy Azim-us-Shan due to conflicts with his influential deputy viceroy and prime minister Murshid Quli Khan.
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