The Sena Twilight: Vikrampur's Last Hindu Kings

In this episode, Lucas and Luna return to the close of Bengal's Sena dynasty, focusing on the final decades at Vikrampur after the fall of Nabadwip. They trace the dynasty's Kannada origins, the reign of Lakshman Sen, and the shadowy figure of the last king, Keshav Sen, whose rule dissolved into petty principalities. The conversation revisits the Deopara inscription, the court poet Jayadeva and the Gita Govinda, and the gradual Turkish advance under Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji. They also examine the contested timeline of the Sena collapse, the fate of the royal family in eastern Bengal, and how the memory of the Senas lingered in local legends and Mughal-era chronicles. The episode grapples with a central question: did the Senas truly fall in a single dramatic invasion, or did their power simply erode through decades of pressure, betrayal, and the slow disintegration of their once-mighty kingdom? Along the way, they touch on the material culture of late Sena Bengal, the role of the kaivarta rebellion, and the strange afterlife of Sena claims in later Bengali genealogies. #SenaDynasty #LakshmanSen #Vikrampur #BakhtiyarKhalji #Nabadwip #GitaGovinda #Jayadeva #DeoparaInscription #BengalHistory #MedievalIndia #KaivartaRebellion #HinduKings #SenaTwilight #BengalSultanate #FexingoHistory #SouthAsia #History #Podcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo