What is the history of Dhaka city?
What is the short history of Dhaka?
The history of Dhaka begins with the existence of urbanised settlements that were ruled by the Hindu Gauda Kingdom, Buddhist and Shaivite[2] Pala Empire before passing to the control of the Hindu Sena dynasty in the 10th century CE.[3] After the Sena dynasty, the city was ruled by the Hindu Deva Dynasty.Dhaka was successively ruled by the Turkic and Afghan governors descending from the Delhi Sultanate, followed by the Bengal Sultanate, before the arrival of the Mughals in 1608. The city became proto-industrialised and declared capital of the Mughal Bengal and commercial (financial) capital of the Mughal India.