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MEDIEVAL INDIA

Bahmani Kingdom
Bahmani Kingdom (1347 - 1538)
● Revolt by the foreign muslim nobles of Md. Bin Tughlaq - Proclaimed Hasan
Gangu as leader
● Hasan Gangu - Abu - i - Muzaffar Alauddin Bahman Shah
● Bahmani Kingdom in 1347 CE

Muhammad Shah (1358 - 1371 C.E.)

● A sound administrative system.


● Khalifa of Egypt
● Tyrant
Firuz Shah Bahmani (1397 - 1422)
● Establish Deccan as the ‘cultural centre’ of India - influx of scholars, sufi saints
from Delhi sultanate
● Scholarly outlook - Religious science, logic, natural science - botany, geometry
etc
● Recruitment of Hindus into administration
● Religious tolerance of Bahmani Sultans
● Heterogenous nobility
● Astronomy - Daultabad observatory
● Development of Dabhol and Chaul ports
● Conflict with Vijayanagar for Krishna - Godavari Basin - defeated and abdicated
throne to Ahmed Shah
Ahmed Shah (1422 - 1435 C.E.)
● Saint - association with Sufi saint Gesu Faraz
● Gulbarga - Bidar.
● Avenged Warangal ruler - annexed territories
● Conflict between Pardeshis and Afaquis
● Alauddin II 1435-57 - Humayun - minor king Nizam Shah - Muhammad Shah III -
Mahmud Shah
● Mahmud Gawan appointed as the prime minister (Wazir) by Humayun Shah
● Friction and tension between two rival noble groups
○ afaqis/Pardesi/Gharibs vs Deccani (Indian muslims, Abyssinians)
○ Mahmud Gawan - reconcile the two factions
● Execution of Gawan - open rivalry - disintegration of the kingdom into
○ Adil Shahi of Bijapur
○ Qutb Shahi of Golkunda
○ Nizam Shahi of Ahmednagar
○ Barid Shahi of Bidar
○ Imad Shahi of Berar
Mahmud Gawan (1463 - 1482)
● Malik - ul - Tujjar
● Maximum territorial limits - Annexations in the east, raids into the Vijayanagar
territories and capture of Dabhol and Goa ports
● Northern frontiers settled - conflict with Malwa rulers

Internal reforms

● Divided kingdoms into tarafs, tarafdar - fixed salary - jagir and cash
● Curbing the influence of tarafdars - forts under state’s control
● Land revenue - Land measurement
● Balance in nobility
Mahmud Gawan (1463 - 1482)
● Malik - ul - Tujjar
● Maximum territorial limits - Annexations in the east, raids into the Vijayanagar
territories and capture of Dabhol and Goa ports
● Northern frontiers settled - conflict with Malwa rulers

Internal reforms

● Divided kingdoms into tarafs, tarafdar - fixed salary - jagir and cash
● Curbing the influence of tarafdars - forts under state’s control
● Land revenue - Land measurement
● Balance in nobility
Mahmud Gawan (1463 - 1482)
Art and Culture

● Madrasa at Bidar - Free education and accommodation


Bijapur Kingdom (1489 - 1686 C.E.)
● Yusuf Adil Shah
● Rulers - Shia sect of Islam
● Ibrahim Adil Shah I - ‘Shah’ - Dakhini as official language
● Ali Adil Shah - Alliance with Ram Raya of Vijaynagar and Qutab Shahi rulers -
Invaded Nizam Shahi territory
● Battle of Talikota, 1565 - along with the Golkanda, Bidar & Ahmednagar kingdom
● Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1579 - 1629) - Patron of music, a musician himself
○ Wrote Kitab - i - Nauras
○ Musical capital - Nauraspur
○ Ablababa (Jagatguru)
○ Tarikh - i - Firishta

The kingdom declined after his death.

The kingdom was annexed by Aurangzeb in 1686 C.E.


Art & Architecture
● Important buildings of the Adil Shahis

Monument Importance

● Ibrahim Rouza - Tomb of Ibrahim Adil Shah II & his queen Taj
Sultana
● Gagan Mahal - Heavenly palace built by Ali Adil Shah I. Was a
royal palace with a darbar hall
● Gol Gumbaz - Mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah. (one of the
world’s largest domes)
Golconda (1512 - 1687 C.E.)
● Qutub Shah in 1512 C.E.
● Ibrahim Qutub Khan (1550 - 1580 C.E.) - tolerant and secular leader
● A great patron of Telugu language - ‘Malikabaram’
● Battle of Talikotta in 1565 C.E.
● Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah (1580 - 1612 C.E.) - patron of art and culture
● Hyderabad - Charminar

The kingdom was annexed by Aurangzeb in 1687 C.E.


Ahmednagar (1490 - 1633)
● Malik Ahmed, also called as Ahmed Bahri Nizam Shah
● Hussain Nizam Shah (1533 - 1565 C.E.) - battle of Talikota 1565 C.E.
● Chand Bibi (daughter of Hussain Nizam Shah I) - de facto ruler of Ahmed Nagar
● Fought against the Mughal army - killed in 1600 C.E.
● Revived by Malik Ambar an Abyssinian slave - Mughals
● 1633 C.E. annexed by Shah Jahan
Berar Kingdom (1484 - 1572 C.E.
● Fathullah Imad Shah
● Berar stayed away from the confederate of Deccan sultans against Vijay Nagar
Empire in the battle of Talikotta in 1565 C.E.
● Annexed by Ahmed Nagar Empire in 1572 C.E.
Bidar Kingdom (1527 - 1618) C.E.
● Amir Ali Barid.
● 1618 C.E., Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II invaded Bidar and annexed it to Bijapur
kingdom.

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