Raja Ganesha

Raja Ganesha was a zamindar ruler and the first Hindu Sultan of the Bengal Sultanate, who took advantage of the weakness of the first Ilyas Shahi dynasty and seized power in Bengal. Contemporary historians of the medieval period considered him a usurper. The Ganesha dynasty founded by him ruled over Bengal from 1415 to 1435. His name is mentioned in the coins of his son, sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah, as Kans Jha or Kans Shah. The Indo-Persian historians mentioned his name as Raja Kans or Kansi. A number of modern scholars identified him with Danujamardanadeva, but this identification is not universally accepted. In the Arakanese accounts and also in Bengal and Mithila history, it is noticed that Raja Ganesha, along with his friend, Shiva Simha Singh of Mithila had combined their forces and defeated Ibrahim Sharqi of Jaunpur Sultanate, who invaded Northern-Eastern India, which created Bengal-Jaunpur conflict.