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{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Bengal–Jaunpur confrontation
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| date = 1415-1420<ref name="Eaton1996" />
| place = [[Bengal]]
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| result = Bengal Sultanate victory
* Jaunpur accepts formation of new dynasty
* [[Raja Ganesha]]'s [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah|son]] embraces [[Islam]]
* Ilyas Shahi insurgency continues until 1436
| combatant1 = {{flagicon image|Bengal_Sultanate_Flag.gif}} [[Bengal Sultanate]] '''''Diplomatic support:''''' {{flagicon image|Timurid.svg}} [[Timurid Empire]] {{flagicon image|Seal of Ming dynasty.svg}} [[Ming China]]
| combatant2 = [[Jaunpur Sultanate]]
| commander1 = {{flagicon image|Bengal_Sultanate_Flag.gif}} '''[[Raja Ganesha]]''' {{flagicon image|Bengal_Sultanate_Flag.gif}} '''[[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah]]'''
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{{flagicon image|Timurid.svg}} [[Shah Rukh]] {{flagicon image|Seal of Ming dynasty.svg}} [[Yongle Emperor]]
| commander2 = '''Ibrahim Shah'''
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{{flagicon image|Bengal_Sultanate_Flag.gif}} [[Nur Qutb Alam]] (until 1416)
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}}{{Bengal Sultanate}}
The '''Bengal–Jaunpur confrontation''' was an early 15th-century conflict that stemmed from the [[Jaunpur Sultanate]]'s opposition to the [[Coup|overthrow]]ing of the [[Bengal Sultanate]]'s founding dynasty, the [[Ilyas Shahi dynasty|Ilyas Shahi]], by [[Raja Ganesha]]. After diplomatic pressure from the [[Timurid Empire|Timurid]] and [[Ming Empire|Ming]] empires, Jaunpur's sultan Ibrahim Shah was convinced to abstain from attacking Bengal.

==Background==
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The Jaunpur Sultanate challenged the rule of [[Raja Ganesha]] who usurped the throne of Bengal after the overthrowing the [[Ilyas Shahi dynasty]]. Raja Ganesha was later removed as a result. But his son later took the throne and converted to Islam.

==Conflict==
Ibrahim Shah of Jaunpur continued to attack the Bengal Sultanate under [[Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah]].

==Foreign mediation==
A diplomat in the court of [[Shahrukh Mirza]] recorded that the [[Timurid Empire|Timurid]] ruler of [[Herat]] intervened during the Bengal-Jaunpur conflict after a request from the Sultan of Bengal. The record speaks of Shahrukh Mirza "directing the ruler of Jaunpur to abstain from attacking the King of Bengal, or to take the consequence upon himself. To which the intimation of the Jaunpur ruler was obedient, and desisted from his attacks upon Bengal".<ref name="Eaton1996">{{cite book|author=Richard M. Eaton|title=The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760|year=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gKhChF3yAOUC&pg=PA349|publisher=University of California Press|page=53|isbn=978-0-520-20507-9}}</ref> Records from [[Ming China]] state that the [[Yongle Emperor]] also mediated between Jaunpur and Bengal after the Bengali ambassador in his [[Peking]] court complained of the conflict.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Chung Tan|author2=Yinzeng Geng|year=2005|title=India and China: twenty centuries of civilization interaction and vibrations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wx1uAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Centre for Studies in Civilizations|page=361|isbn=978-81-87586-21-0|quote=The Bengali envoy....complained at the Ming court. In the 9th moon, the Ming ... The "Zhaonapuer"Jaunpur troops withdrew from Bengal. (Here is a unique episode of China's mediating in the conflict between two Indian states.}}</ref>

==Aftermath==
The conflict resulted in peace between Bengal and Jaunpur.

==See also==
*[[Jaunpur-Bhojpur War]]

==References==
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