Amar Desh Online published a long historical review on August 6, 2026, tracing Bengal’s struggles for independence, identity and resistance from Bakhtiyar Khilji’s conquest in 1204 to the July Revolution of 2024. Written by Muhim Mahfuz, Asif Azhar, Mahmud Ahmad and Siam An-Nufais, the article highlights Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah’s establishment of the Bengal Sultanate in 1352, Isa Khan’s resistance to Mughal expansion, and multiple uprisings against British rule.

The article portrays Bakhtiyar Khilji’s conquest as ending Sena rule and liberating oppressed people. It says Ilyas Shah united three administrative regions to establish Sultanate Bangalah, while the Baro-Bhuiyan alliance under Isa Khan resisted Mughal advances in the Bhati region. The account presents these episodes as central to the formation of Bengali political identity and statehood.

For the colonial period, it cites the Fakir-Sannyasi, Faraizi, Titumir, Santal, Indigo and Pabna peasant uprisings as responses to revenue demands, landlord exploitation and indigo-planter abuses. It also discusses Sylhet’s Muharram uprising of 1782. The article places the 1952 Language Movement, 1971 Liberation War, 1990 mass uprising and 2024 July Revolution within the same historical continuum.