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Bengal Subah or Subah-i-Bangalah was one of the subahs (provinces) of the Mughal Empire from 1574 to 1757.

On 25 September 1574, Mughal army commander Munim Khan occupied Tanda, the capital of Daud Khan Karrani, the last Afghan ruler of Bengal. It ushered in the Mughal rule in Bengal. In 1713 Murshid Quli Khan became the naib nazim (deputy subahdar) of Bengal. In 1717, he became its subahdar or nazim (governor) and Bengal became completely independent of imperial control. Subsequent to the defeat of the last independent nazim Siraj ud-Daulah in the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757 and his death on 2 July 1757, Bengal was brought under the control of the British East India Company and the successors of Siraj ud-Daulah were merely puppets.

Administrative divisions
Bengal Subah initially comprised 24 sarkars (districts), which included 5 sarkars of Orissa, later separated from Bengal Subah during the reign of Jahangir. The 19 sarkars of Bengal Subah was further divided into 682 parganas. Initially the capital of the Subah was Tanda. Later a new capital was built in Rajmahal by Man Singh I in 1595. In 1612 the capital was shifted from Rajmahal to Dhaka. In 1658, subsequent to the revenue settlement of Shah Shuja 15 new sarkars and 361 new parganas were added. Murshid Quli Khan shifted the capital from Dhaka to Murshidabad. In 1722, he divided the whole Subah into 13 chakalahs, which were further divided into 1660 parganas.

The sarkars (districts) and the parganas (tehsils) of Bengal Subah were:

List of Subahdars
Following is the list of Subahdars (provincial governors) of Bengal Subah from 1574-1757: