Iwaz Khalji

Malik Husamuddin/Ghiyathuddin Iwaz Khalji
Coin of Ghiyath al-Din 'Iwad. Governor of Bengal, AH 614–616 AD (1217–1220). Struck in the name of Shams al-Din Iltutmish, Sultan of Delhi.

Sultan of Bengal
In office 1212 – 1227
Preceded by	Ali Mardan Khalji
Succeeded by	Nasiruddin Mahmud
Governor of Bengal
In office 1208 – 1210
Preceded by	Muhammad Shiran Khalji
Succeeded by	Ali Mardan Khalji

Personal details
Born	c. 1150
Died	c. 1227 Bengal
Children	Ali Sher Khalji

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History of Bengal

Ancient Kingdoms Pundravardhana Vanga Suhma Rarha Samatata Anga Harikela Pragjyotisha
Classical Dynasties Gangaridai Bhulua Nandas Mauryans Shungas Guptas Varmanas Gaudas Kamarupa Jaintia Gour Laur Mallabhum Bhadras Khadgas Palas Kamboja Palas Senas Chandras Devas Pratapgarh Taraf
Islamic Bengal Delhi Sultanate Khalji dynasty Mamluk dynasty Tughlaq dynasty House of Balban City states: Sonargaon Lakhnauti Satgaon Bengal Sultanate: Ilyas Shahi dynasty House of Ganesha Hussain Shahi dynasty Karrani dynasty Sur Empire Twelve Bhuyan Confederacy Kingdom of Mrauk U Jaintia Kingdom Pratapgarh Kingdom Koch dynasty Kingdom of Tripura Kingdom of Bhurshut Mughal Empire: Bengal Subah Burdwan Raj Rajshahi Raj Nadia Raj Bettiah Raj Nawabs of Bengal Zamindars Maratha expeditions in Bengal
Colonial Bengal Portuguese Chittagong Dutch Bengal French Bengal Danish Bengal Austrian Bengal British Bengal Battle of Plassey Bengal famine of 1770 Santal Revolt Chuar rebellion Indian Mutiny of 1857 Bihar famine of 1873–74 Partition of Bengal (1905) Eastern Bengal and Assam Bengali Renaissance Bengal famine of 1943 Direct Action Day Radcliffe Line Partition of Bengal (1947)
Post-partition era East Bengal/East Pakistan(1947–1971) East Bengali refugees History of East Pakistan 1964 East Pakistan riots Bengali language movement Bangladesh Liberation War
Modern period West Bengal 1947–present Bangladesh 1971–present
Related Architecture of Bengal History of Bengali literature Bangamata History of the taka Muslin trade in Bengal List of governors of Bengal Presidency Prime Minister of Bengal Maritime history of Bengal

Ancient

Neolithic	7600 - 3300 BCE
Bronze Age	3300 – 1200 BCE
Pundra kingdom	c.1280 – c. 300 BCE
Iron Age	1200 – 200 BCE
Vanga kingdom	c.1100 – c. 340 BCE
House of Vijaya	543 BCE - 66 CE
Northern Culture	700 – 200 BCE
Gangaridai	c. 350 – c. 300 BCE
Nanda Dynasty	c. 345 BCE– c. 322 BCE
Mauryan Empire	325 – 185 BCE
Samatata kingdom	c. 232 BCE – 800 AD
Shunga and Kushan	c. 185 BCE – c. 75 CE
Southwestern Silk Road	c. 114 BCE – c. 1450 CE
Indo-Roman trade relations	c. 30 BCE – c. 600 CE
Gupta Empire	240 – 550 CE
Kamarupa kingdom	350 – 1140 CE

Medieval

Jaintia Kingdom	500 – 1835 CE
Gauda Kingdom	590 – 626 CE
Laur kingdom	600 - 1565 CE
Harikela kingdom	600 - 650 CE
Gour Kingdom	600 – 1303 CE
Khadga dynasty	650 – 750 CE
Bhadra dynasty	c. 700s CE
Pala Empire	750 – 1100 CE
Chandra dynasty	900 – 1050 CE
Sena dynasty	1070 – 1320 CE
Deva dynasty	1100 – 1250 CE
Ghurid Conquest	1202 CE
Khaljis of Bengal	1204 - 1231 CE
Taraf Kingdom	c. 1200s – c. 1600s CE
Bhulua Kingdom	1203 – 1600s CE
Delhi Sultanate	1204 – 1338 CE
Mamluk Dynasty	1206 – 1290 CE
Khalji Dynasty	1290 – 1320 CE
Tugluq Dynasty	1320 – 1338,1342 CE
City State Sultanates
Sonargaon	1338 – 1352 CE
Lakhnauti/Gauda	1342 – 1352 CE
Satagon/Saptagram	1342 – 1352 CE
Twipra Kingdom	c. 1400 – 1949 CE
Bengal Sultanate	1352 – 1576 CE
Ilyas Shahi dynasty	1342 – 1487 CE
House of Ganesha	1414 – 1436 CE
Habshi dynasty	1487 – 1494 CE
Hussein Shahi	1494 – 1538 CE
Suri Interruption	1539 – 1554 CE
Muhammad Shahi	1554 – 1564 CE
Karrani dynasty	1564 – 1576 CE
Pratapgarh Kingdom	1489 – 1700s CE

Early Modern

Koch Kingdom	1515 – 1956 CE
Suri Dynasty	1540 – 1556 CE
Twelve Bhuyans	1550 – 1620 CE
Porto Grande de Bengala	1528 – 1666 CE
Kingdom of Mrauk U	1530 – 1666 CE
Mughal Empire	1576 – 1717 CE
Bengal Subah	1576 – 1717 CE
Rajshahi Raj	c. 1700s - 1950 CE
Zamindars	1700s - 1900s CE
Pratapaditya Kingdom	1602 – 1611 CE
Sitaram Ray Kingdom	1688 – 1714 CE
Nawabs of Bengal	1717 – 1757 CE
Maratha Invasions	1742 - 1751 CE
Afghan insurrections	1745 - 1750 CE
Siege of Calcutta	1756 CE
Shamsher Gazi's Kingdom	1748 – 1760 CE
Company Raj	1757 – 1858 CE
Bengal famine of 1770	1770 CE
Bengal Renaissance	1772 - 1913 CE
Faraizi movement	1818 – 1884 CE
The Great Rebellion	1857 – 1858 CE
Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya	1830 – 1831 CE
Titumir's rebellion	1830s CE
British Raj	1858 – 1947 CE
Partition of Bengal	1905 CE
Bengal and Assam	1905 - 1912 CE
Bengal Famine	1943 CE
Bengali Prime Minister	1937 - 1947 CE
Noakhali riots	1946 CE

Ḥusām ad-Dīn ʿIwaz bin Ḥusayn Khaljī (Bengali: হুসামউদ্দীন ইওজ বিন হোসেন খলজী, Persian: حسام الدین عوض بن حسین خلجی), later known by his regnal title as Ghiyāth ad-Dīn ʿIwaz Shāh (Bengali: গিয়াসউদ্দীন ইওজ শাহ, Persian: غیاث الدین عوض شاه), was a two-time governor of Bengal under the Delhi Sultanate, and a member of the Khalji dynasty of Bengal. During his second term, lasting from 1212 to 1227, Khalji declared himself as an independent ruler of Bengal.

His regime has been described as "constructive" as Khalji made major developments to Bengal by innovating flood defence systems and interlinking major cities by means of constructing South Asia's earliest-recorded embankments and extending the Grand Trunk Road. Khalji was also responsible for establishing Bengal's first naval force, the complete fortification of Lakhnauti (Gaur) and the founding of the fort-town of Basankot.