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Keshava Sena

the sixth and last known ruler of the Sen dynasty of the Bengal, India

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Source revisionSep 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ16800913
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Keshava Sena, (Bengali: কেশব সেন), also known as "Keshab Sen" in vernacular literature, was the sixth and last known ruler of the Sen dynasty of the Bengal region on the Indian subcontinent. He was succeeded by Surya Sena, who was a vassal of the Devas, with his lineage ending after two more kings.

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“Keshava Sena” enters the record as the sixth and last known ruler of the Sen dynasty of the Bengal, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Keshava, Sena and sixth can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“Keshava Sena” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Keshava, Sena and sixth provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16800913. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Keshava Sena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.