page_title: Bengal Subah
section_title: List of Viceroys
hierarchical_section_title: Bengal Subah / List of Viceroys
caption_attribution_description: English: Azim us-Shan Bahadur
context_page_description: The Bengal Subah was a subdivision of the Mughal Empire encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, between the 16th and 18th centuries. The state was established following the dissolution of the Bengal Sultanate, a major trading nation in the world, when the region was absorbed into one of the gunpowder empires. Bengal was the wealthiest and industrially the most developed place in the world and having waved the proto-industrialization, its economy showed signs of Industrial revolution.
  Bengal has been described as the "Paradise of Nations", and its inhabitants's living standards and real wages were among the highest in the world. Worth 12% of the world's GDP, it alone accounted for 40% of Dutch imports outside the European continent. The eastern part of 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. Its capital Jahangir Nagar, today's modern Dhaka, had a population exceeding a million people.
caption: Viceroy Azim-us-Shan (1697–1712), later the Mughal Emperor
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