Few, if any, other parts of the world can lay claim to what have been an essential part, if not the root, of the development of five great empires over less than two and a half millennia, and the world’s earliest true private sector multinational corporation. Although financed perhaps by the trade, subsequent minor empires rose and fell in the region, it was not until the early years of the 4th century of the Common Era that the next of the great empires reached out across most of northern India. It survived for a little over two centuries, but left behind an astonishing record of cultural and economic achievement. Traces of these empires remain in Bangladesh, both in the highly visible Buddhist Vihara… University monasteries, and a considerable collection of artefacts. Known as one of the three great gunpowder empires, the Mughals, sadly, were finally consumed by that same gunpowder.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 03, 2016 09:00 UTC