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q Eastern India q Western India
q Northern India q Southern India

Introduction China. They moved to Burma and from there to
Assam. They formed their kingdom after defeating
In the ancient and medieval period whenever the
the local rulers. The most famous Ahom king was
central power became weak, the regional kingdoms
Rudra Singh who ruled from 1696 to 1714 AD.
rose to power. So with the decline of the Tughluqs,
several kingdoms in different parts of the country The Ahoms were great fighters. They fought with
arose. the local rulers and the rulers of Bengal and
Mughals. Aurangzeb later defeated them but it
When the Delhi Sultanate became weak, many was not a decisive victory. Later, they acted as the
regional powers came into being. The important
vassals of the Mughals.
regional kingdoms during this period were Bengal ,
Assam and Jaunpur in eastern India; Gujarat , When the Burmese entered Assam in 1817, the
Malwa , Mewar and Marwar in western India; British felt threatened. They defeated the Burmese
Kashmir in northern India; and Bahmani and and brought Assam under British India in 1826.
Vijayanagara kingdoms in southern India. Jaunpur

The Sharqis were the governors of Jaunpur who
EASTERN INDIA
declared their independence from the Delhi
Bengal Sultanate. Jaunpur is situated in eastern Uttar
Pradesh. Malik Sarwar ascended the throne with
Shamsuddin Iliyas Khan , the governor of Bengal,
the title Malik-us-Sharq . The name Sharqi has
declared his independence during the Tughluq
rule at Delhi. The Tughluq sultans tried to bring been derived from this title.
Bengal under their suzerainty, but failed. Overseas The Sharqi rulers wanted to capture Delhi, but
trade made Bengal prosperous. A number of they fought futile battles, and weakened
Hindus worked for the sultan. Several buildings in themselves. They ruled for less than a century,
stone and brick were built at Pandua and Gaur. and were annexed by Bahlul Lodi.
The literary activities included the compilation of
Sri Krishna Vijaya by Maladhar Basu . Several
dynasties ruled Bengal during the period of two
centuries.

Assam
Assam was ruled by the Ahoms from thirteenth to
nineteenth century. The word ‘Assam’ has been
derived from the word ‘Ahom’. The Ahoms
originally belonged to the Mao Shan tribe of
Atala Masjid Char Minar at Hyderabad
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