Bahmani Sultanate

Kingdom in Deccan India (1347–1527)

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Bahmani Sultanate

1347–1527

The Bahmani Sultanate at its greatest extent in 1473 under regent Mahmud Gawan[1][2]

Status| Sultanate
Capital|

* Gulbarga (1347–1425)
* Bidar (1425–1527)

Common languages| Persian (official)[3]
Marathi
Deccani Urdu
Telugu
Kannada
Religion

| Sunni Islam[4]
Shia Islam[4][5]
Sufism[6]
Government| Monarchy
Sultan|

• 1347–1358

| Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah

• 1525–1527

| Kalim-Allah Shah
Historical era| Late Medieval

• Established

| 3 August 1347

• Disestablished

| 1527
Currency| Taka

Preceded by | Succeeded by

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|  | Delhi Sultanate

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| Bijapur Sultanate |

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Golconda Sultanate |
Ahmadnagar Sultanate |
Berar Sultanate |
Bidar Sultanate |
Today part of| India

The Bahmani Sultanate (Persian: سلطان‌نشین بهمنی) was a late medieval empire that ruled the Deccan Plateau in India. The first independent Muslim kingdom of the Deccan,[7] the Bahmani Sultanate came to power in 1347 during the rebellion of Ismail Mukh against Muhammad bin Tughlaq, the Sultan of the Tughlaq dynasty of Delhi. Ismail Mukh then abdicated in favour of Zafar Khan, who would establish the Bahmani Sultanate.

The Bahmani Sultanate was in perpetual war with its neighbours, including its rival to the south, the Vijayanagara Empire, which would outlast the Sultanate.[8] The Bahmani Sultans also patronized architectural works. The Mahmud Gawan Madrasa was created by Mahmud Gawan, the vizier regent who was Prime minister of the Sultanate from 1466 until his execution in 1481 during a conflict between the foreign (Afaqis) and local (Deccanis) nobility. The Bidar Fort was constructed by Ahmad Shah I (r. 1422–36), who relocated the capital to the city of Bidar. Ahmad Shah would lead campaigns against Vijayanagar and the Sultanates of Malwa and Gujarat. His campaign against Vijayanagar in 1423 would lead to their capital's siege, which would result in the expansion of the Sultanate. Mahmud Gawan would later lead campaigns during his rule against Malwa, Vijayanagar, and the Gajapatis, and would extend the Sultanate to its maximum extent.

The Sultanate would begin its decline under the reign of Mahmood Shah. Through a combination of factional strife and the revolt of five provincial governors (tarafdars), the Bahmani Sultanate would split up into five states, known as the Deccan Sultanates. The initial revolts of Yusuf Adil Shah, Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I, and Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk in 1490 and Qasim Barid I in 1492 would see the end of any real Bahmani power, and the last independent Sultanate, that of Golkonda in 1518, would end the Bahmani's 180 year rule over the Deccan. The last four Bahmani rulers would be puppet monarchs under Amir Barid I of the Bidar Sultanate, and the kingdom formally dissolved in 1527.[9][10]

## Origin

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See also: Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah

The Bahmani Sultanate was founded by Zafar Khan, who was of either Afghan or Turk origin.[11][12][13][14] Encyclopedia Iranica states him to be a Khorasani adventurer, who claimed descent from Bahrām Gōr.[15] According to the medieval historian Ferishta, his obscurity makes it difficult to track his origin, but he is nonetheless stated as of Afghan birth.[16] Ferishta further writes, Zafar Khan had earlier been a servant of a Brahmin astrologer at Delhi named Gangu, giving him the name Hasan Gangu,[17][18] and says that he was from North India.[19] Historians have not found any corroboration for the legend,[20][21] but Barani, who was the court chronicler of Sultan Firuz Shah, as well as some other scholars have also called him Hasan Gangu.[22] Another theory of origin for Zafar Khan is that he was of Brahmin origin,[23] and that Bahman (his given name following the establishment of the Sultanate) is a corrupted personalized form of Brahman,[24] with Hasan Gangu being a Hindu Brahman who became Muslim.[25][23] However this view has been discredited by S.A.Q. Husaini, who considers the idea of a Brahmin origin or Zafar Khan originally being a Hindu convert to Islam from Punjab untenable.[26]

## History

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Ziauddin Barani, the court chronicler of Sultan Firuz Shah, states that Hasan Gangu, the Bahmani Sultanate's founder, was "born in very humble circumstances" and that "For the first thirty years of his life he was nothing more than a field laborer."[27] He was made a commander of a hundred horsemen by the Delhi Sultan, Muhammad bin Tughluq, who was pleased with his honesty. This sudden rise in the military and socio-economic ladder was common in this era of Muslim India.[28] Zafar Khan or Hasan Gangu was among the inhabitants of Delhi who were forced to migrate to the Deccan, to build a large Muslim settlement in the region of Daulatabad.[29] Zafar Khan was a man of ambition and looked forward to the adventure. He had long hoped to employ his body of horsemen in the Deccan as the region was seen as the place of bounty in Muslim imagination at the time. He was rewarded with an Iqta for taking part in the conquest of Kampili.[30]

### Rise

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Main article: Rebellion of Ismail Mukh

South Asia
1400 CE

DELHI

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EMPIRE

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KANGRA

KALMAT

GUJARAT
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SULTANATE

KHANDESH
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TOMARAS

TWIPRA

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KAMATAS

SUGAUNAS

MALLA

NAGVANSIS

AHOM

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VIJAYANAGARA
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MALWA
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AMARKOT

VAGAD

MEWAT

JAUNPUR
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The Bahmani Sultanate and main South Asian polities in 1400 CE[31]

Before the establishment of his kingdom, Hasan Gangu (Zafar Khan) was Governor of Deccan and a commander on behalf of the Tughlaqs. On 3 August 1347, during the rebellion by the Amirs of the Deccan, Ismail Mukh, the leader of the rebellion (whom the rebel amirs of the Deccan placed on the throne of Daulatabad in 1345), abdicated in favor of Zafar Khan, resulting in the establishment of the Bahmani Kingdom. The Sultan of Delhi had besieged the rebels at the citadel of Daulatabad. As another rebellion had begun in Gujarat, the Sultan left and installed Shaikh Burhan-ud-din Bilgrami and Malik Jauhar and other nobles in charge of the siege. Meanwhile, as these nobles were unable to stop the Deccani amirs from pursuing the imperial army, Hasan Gangu, a native of Delhi, then being pursued by Governor of Berar Imad-ul-Mulk, the leader to whom the Deccani Amirs had re-assembled against, attacked and slew the latter and marched on towards Daulatabad. Here Hasan Gangu and the Deccani amirs put to flight the imperial forces which had been left to besiege. The rebels at Daulatabad had the sense to see Hasan Gangu as the man of the hour, and the proposal to crown Hasan Gangu, entitled Zafar Khan, was accepted without a dissentient voice on 3 August 1347.[32][33][34][35][36] His revolt was successful, and he established an independent state on the Deccan within the Delhi Sultanate's southern provinces with its headquarters at Hasanabad (Gulbarga), where all his coins were minted.[32][37]

With the support of the influential Indian Chishti Sufi Shaikhs, he was crowned "Alauddin Bahman Shah Sultan – Founder of the Bahmani Dynasty".[38] They bestowed upon him a robe allegedly worn by the prophet Muhammad. The extension of the Sufi's notion of spiritual sovereignty lent legitimacy to the planting of the Sultanate's political authority, where the land, people, and produce of the Deccan were merited state protection, no longer available for plunder with impunity. These Sufis legitimized the transplantation of Indo-Muslim rulership from one region in South Asia to another, converting the land of the Bahmanids into being recognized as Dar ul-Islam, while it was previously considered Dar ul-Harb.[39]

Turkish or Indo-Turkish troops, explorers, saints, and scholars moved from Delhi and North India to the Deccan with the establishment of the Bahmanid sultanate. How many of these were Shi'ites is unclear. Nonetheless, there is enough evidence to demonstrate that a number of nobility at the Bahmani court identified as Shi'ites or had significant Shi'ite inclinations.[a][4]

### Succeeding rulers (1358–1422)

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Alauddin was succeeded by his son Mohammed Shah I.[41] His conflicts with the Vijayanagar empire were singularly savage wars, as according to the historian Ferishta, "the population of the Carnatic was so reduced that it did not recover for several ages."[42] The Bahmanids' aggressive confrontation with the two main Hindu kingdoms of the southern Deccan, Warangal and Vijayanagara in the First Bahmani–Vijayanagar War, made them renowned among Muslims as warriors of the faith.[43]

The Vijayanagara empire and the Bahmanids fought over the control of the Godavari-basin, Tungabadhra Doab, and the Marathwada country, although they seldom required a pretext for declaring war,[44] as military conflicts were almost a regular feature and lasted as long as these kingdoms continued.[45] Military slavery involved captured slaves from Vijayanagara whom were then converted to Islam and integrated into the host society, so they could begin military careers within the Bahmanid empire.[46][47]

Ghiyasuddin succeeded his father Muhammad II at the age of seventeen in April 1397, but was blinded and imprisoned by a Turkic slave called Taghalchin,[48][49] who had held a grudge on the Sultan for the latter's refusal to appoint him as a governor. He had lured the Sultan into putting himself in the former's power, using the beauty of his daughter, who was accomplished in music and arts, and had introduced her to the Sultan at a feast.[50][51] He was succeeded by Shamsuddin, who was a puppet king under Taghalchin. Firuz and Ahmed, the sons of the fourth sultan Daud, marched to Gulbarga to avenge Ghiyasuddin. Firuz declared himself the sultan, and defeated Taghalchin's forces. Taghalchin was killed and Shamsuddin was blinded.[52]

Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah became the sultan in November 1397.[53] Firuz Shah fought against the Vijayanagara Empire on many occasions and the rivalry between the two dynasties continued unabated throughout his reign, with victories in 1398 and in 1406, but a defeat in 1417. One of his victories resulted in his marriage to the daughter of Deva Raya, the Vijayanagara Emperor.[54]

Firuz Shah expanded the nobility by enabling Hindus and granting them high office.[55] In his reign, Sufis such as Gesudaraz, a Chishti saint who had immigrated from Dehli to Daulatabad, were prominent in court and daily life.[56] He was the first author to write in the Dakhni dialect of Urdu.[57] The Dakhni language became widespread, practised by various milieus from the court to the Sufis. It was established as a lingua franca of the Muslims of the Deccan, as not only the aspect of a dominant urban elite, but an expression of the regional religious identity.[58]

### Later rulers (1422–1482)

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Firuz Shah was succeeded by his younger brother Ahmad Shah I Wali. Following the establishment of Bidar as capital of the Sultanate in 1429,[59] Ahmad Shah I converted to Shi'ism.[4] Ahmad Shah's reign was marked by relentless military campaigns and expansionism. He imposed destruction and slaughter on Vijayanagara and finally captured the remnants of Warangal.[60]

Chand Minar at Daulatabad fort complex

Alauddin Ahmad II succeeded his father to the throne in 1436.[61] The Chand Minar, a minaret in Daulatabad, was constructed under his reign, and was commemorated in his honour[62] in 1445[63] for his victory against Deva Raya II of Vijayanagara in 1443,[62] the last major conflcit between the two powers.[64] For the first half-century after the establishment of the Bahmanids, the original North Indian colonists and their sons had administered the empire quite independent of either the non-Muslim Hindus, or the Muslim foreign immigrants. However, the later Bahmani Sultans, mainly starting from his father Ahmad Shah Wali I, began to recruit foreigners from overseas, whether because of depletion among the ranks of the original settlers, or the feelings of dependency upon the Persian courtly model, or both.[65] This resulted in factional strife that first became acute in the reign of his son Alauddin Ahmad Shah II.[66] In 1446, the powerful Dakhani nobles persuaded the Sultan that the Persians were responsible for the failure of the earlier invasion of the Konkan.[67]

The Sultan, drunk, condoned a large-scale massacre of Persian Shi'a Sayyids by the Sunni Dakhani nobles and their Sunni Abyssinian slaves.[68] A few survivors escaped the massacre dressed in women's clothing and convinced the Sultan of their innocence.[69] Ashamed of his own folly, the Sultan punished the Dakhani leaders who were responsible for the massacre, putting them to death or throwing them in prison, and reduced their families to beggary.[70] The accounts of the violent events likely included exaggerations as it came from the pen of the chroniclers who were themselves mainly foreigners and products of Safavid Persia.[71]

Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, built by Mahmud Gawan to be the centre of religious as well as secular education[72]

The eldest sons of Humayun Shah, Nizam-Ud-Din Ahmad III and Muhammad Shah III Lashkari ascended the throne successively, while they were young boys. The vizier Mahmud Gawan ruled as regent during this period, until Muhammad Shah reached age. Mahmud Gawan is known for setting up the Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, a center of religious as well as secular education,[72] as well as achieving the Sultanate's greatest extent during the his rule.[2] He also increased the administrative divisions of the Sultanate from four to eight to ease the administrative burden from previous expansion of the state. Gawan was considered a great statesman, and a poet of repute.[73]

Mahmud Gawan was caught in a struggle between a rivalry between two groups of nobles, the Dakhanis and the Afaqis. The Dakhanis made up the indigenous Muslim elite of the Bahmanid dynasty, being descendants of Sunni immigrants from Northern India, while the Afaqis were foreign newcomers from the West such as Gawan, who were mostly Shi'is.[74][75] The Dakhanis believed that the privileges, patronage and positions of power in the Sultanate should have been reserved solely for them.[76]

The divisions included sectarian religious divisions where the Afaqis were looked upon as heretics by the Sunnis as the former were Shi'as.[77] Eaton cites a linguistic divide where the Dakhanis spoke Dakhni while the Afaqis favored the Persian language.[78] Mahmud Gawan had tried to reconcile with the two factions over his fifteen-year Prime ministership, but had found it difficult to win their confidence; the party strife could not be stopped.[2] His Afaqis opponents, led by Nizam-ul-Mulk Bahri and motivated by anger over Mahmud's reforms which had curtailed the nobility's power, fabricated a treasonous letter to Purushottama Deva of Orissa which they purported to be from him.[79][80] Mahmud Gawan was ordered executed by Muhammad Shah III, an act that the latter regretted until his death in 1482.[73] Upon his death, Nizam-ul-Mulk Bahri, the father of the founder of the Nizam Shahi dynasty became the regent of the Sultan as Prime minister.[81][82]

### Decline

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Muhammad Shah III Lashkari was succeeded by his son Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, the last Bahmani ruler to have real power.[83] The tarafdars of Ahmednagar, Bijapur, and Berar, Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I, Yusuf Adil Shah, and Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk would agree to assert their independence in 1490, and would establish their own Sultanates but maintain loyalty to the Bahmani Sultan. The Sultanates of Golkonda and Bidar would become in practice independent as well.[9] In 1501, Mahmood Shah Bahmani united his amirs and wazirs in an agreement to wage annual Jihad against Vijayanagara. The expeditions were financially ruinous.[84]

The last Bahmani Sultans were puppet monarchs under their Barid Shahi Prime Ministers, who were de facto rulers. After 1518 the Sultanate would formally break up into five states: Nizamshahi of Ahmednagar, Qutb Shahi of Golconda (Hyderabad), Barid Shahi of Bidar, Imad Shahi of Berar, and Adil Shahi of Bijapur. They are collectively known as the Deccan Sultanates.[9]

## Historiography

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Modern scholars like Haroon Khan Sherwani and Richard M. Eaton have based their accounts of the Bahmani dynasty mainly upon the medieval chronicles of Firishta and Syed Ali Tabatabai.[85][86] Other contemporary works were the Sivatattva Chintamani, a Kannada language encyclopedia on the beliefs and rites of the Veerashaiva faith, and Guru Charitra. Afanasy Nikitin, a Russian merchant and traveler, traveled through the Bahmani Sultanate in his journeys. He contrasts the huge "wealth of the nobility with the wretchedness of the peasantry and the frugality of the Hindus".[87]

## Culture

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Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah of the Bahmani Sultanate's Firman

The Bahmani dynasty patronized Indo-Muslim and Persian culture from Northern India and the Middle East.[88] However, the society of the Bahmnanis was dominated prominently by Iranians, Afghans, and Turks.[89] They also had considerable and social influence such as with the celebration of Nowruz by Bahmani rulers.[89] This also comes as Mohammed Shah I ascended the throne on Nowruz.[90] According to Khafi Khan and Ferishta, musicians flocked to the court from Lahore, Delhi, Persia and Khorasan.[91]

The Bahmani Sultans were patrons of the Persian language, culture and literature, and some members of the dynasty became well-versed in the language and composed its literature in the language.[7]

The first sultan, Alauddin Bahman Shah, is noted to have captured 1,000 singing and dancing girls from Hindu temples after he battled the northern Carnatic chieftains. The later Bahmanis also enslaved civilian women and children in wars; many of them were converted to Islam in captivity.[92][93]

### Bidriware

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Main article: Bidriware

Bidriware is a metal handicraft from the city of Bidar in Karnataka. It was developed in the 14th century during the rule of the Bahmani Sultans.[94] The term "bidriware" originates from the township of Bidar, which is still the chief center of production.[95] The craftspersons of Bidar were so famed for their inlay work on copper and silver that it came to be known as Bidri.[94] The metal used is white brass that is blackened and inlaid with silver.[95] As a native art form, Bidriware obtained a geographical Indications (GI) registry on 3 January 2006.[96]

### Architecture

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Main article: Architecture of the Bahmani and Deccan Sultanates

Gateway to Bidar Fort

The Bahmani Sultans patronized many architectural works, although many have since been destroyed.[97] The Gulbarga Fort, Haft Gumbaz, and Jama Masjid in Gulbarga, the Bidar Fort and Madrasa Mahmud Gawan in Bidar, and the Chand Minar in Daulatabad are some of their major architectural contributions.[72]

The later Sultans were buried in a necropolis known as the Bahmani Tombs. The exterior of one of the tombs is decorated with coloured tiles. Arabic, Persian and Urdu inscriptions are inscribed inside the tombs.[98][99]

The Bahmani Sultans built many mosques, tombs, and madrasas in Bidar and Gulbarga, the two capitals. They also built many forts in Daulatabad, Golconda and Raichur. The architecture was highly influenced by Persian architecture, as they invited architects from Persia, Turkey and Arabia. The Persianate Indo-Islamic style of architecture developed during this period was later adopted by the Deccan Sultanates as well.[100][97]

### Turquoise Throne

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Main article: Takht-i-Firoza

The Turquoise Throne was a jeweled royal throne mentioned by Firishta. It was the seat of the sultans of the Bahmani Sultanate since Mohammed Shah I (r. 1358–1375). It was a gift of Musunuri Kapaya Nayaka, a Telugu King in post-Kakateeya era.[101] It was mentioned by Firishta that on 23 March 1363,[b] this throne replaced an earlier silver throne that the first Bahmani sultan Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah used.

## Gunpowder weapons

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Main article: Gunpowder weapons in the Bahmani Sultanate

See also: History of the firearm § South Asia

The Bahmani Sultanate was likely the first state to invent and utilize gunpowder artillery and firearms within the Indian Subcontinent. Their firearms were the most advanced of their time, surpassing even those of the Yuan Dynasty and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt. The first recorded use of firearms in South Asia was at the Battle of Adoni in 1368, where the Bahmani Sultanate led by Mohammed Shah I used a train of artillery against the Vijayanagara Empire who was led by Harihara II.[103][104] Following the initial use of gunpowder weapons in 1368, they became the backbone of the Bahmani army.[105]

The scholar Iqtidar Alam Khan claims, however, that based on a differing translation of a passage of medieval historian Ferishta's text Tarikh-i Firishta, in which he describes early use of gunpowder weapons in the Indian Subcontinet, it can be inferred that both the Delhi Sultanate and non-Muslim Indian states had the gunpowder weapons that the Bahmani Sultanate began to use in 1368, and that the Bahmanis had acquired the weapons from the Delhi Sultanate.[106] Contemporary evidence shows the presence of gunpowder for pyrotechnic uses in the Delhi Sultanate,[107] and Alam Khan states that their usage in the Battle of Adoni in 1368 was rather the first military usage of gunpowder-derived objects in the Subcontinent.[108]

## List of Bahmani rulers

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Main article: List of Bahmani rulers

Titular Name  | Personal Name  | Reign

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Independence from Sultan of Delhi, Muhammad bin Tughlaq
Shah Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah | Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah I  | 3 August 1347 – 11 February 1358
Shah | Mohammad Shah I | 11 February 1358 – 21 April 1375
Shah Ala-ud-Din Mujahid Shah | Mujahid Shah | 21 April 1375 – 16 April 1378
Shah | Daud Shah Bahmani | 16 April 1378 – 21 May 1378
Shah | Mohammad Shah II  | 21 May 1378 – 20 April 1397
Shah | Ghiyath-ad-din Shah  | 20 April 1397 – 14 June 1397
Shah | Shams-ud-Din Shah
Puppet King Under Lachin Khan Turk | 14 June 1397 – 15 November 1397
Shah Taj-ud-Din Feroze Shah
| Feroze Shah | 24 November 1397 – 1 October 1422
Shah | Ahmed Shah Wali Bahmani | 1 October 1422 – 17 April 1436
Shah Ala-ud-Din Ahmed Shah | Ala-ud-Din II Ahmed Shah Bahmani | 17 April 1436 – 6 May 1458
Shah Ala-ud-Din Humayun Shah | Humayun Shah Zalim Bahmani | 7 May 1458 – 4 September 1461
Shah | Nizam Shah Bahmani | 4 September 1461 – 30 July 1463
Shah Muhammad Shah Lashkari | Muhammad Shah Bahmani III | 30 July 1463 – 26 March 1482
Vira Shah | Mahmood Shah Bahmani II
Puppet under Malik Naib, Qasim Barid I, and Amir Barid I | 26 March 1482 – 27 December 1518
Shah | Ahmed Shah Bahmani III
Puppet King Under Amir Barid I | 27 December 1518 – 15 December 1520
Shah | Ala-ud-Din Shah Bahmani II
Puppet King Under Amir Barid I | 28 December 1520 – 5 March 1522
Shah | Waliullah Shah Bahmani
Puppet King Under Amir Barid I | 5 March 1522 – 1526
Shah | Kaleemullah Shah Bahmani
Puppet King Under Amir Barid I | 1525–1527
Dissolution of the Sultanate into five kingdoms — Bidar Sultanate, Ahmednagar Sultanate, Bijapur Sultanate, Golconda Sultanate, and Berar Sultanate

## See also

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* Battle of Talikota
* Battle of Raichur

## References

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### Notes

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1. ^ Stephen F. Dale refers to the Bahmanis as Shi'i Muslims.[40]
2. ^ Firishta mentioned that Sultan Bahman Shah first sat on the new throne (i.e. the Takht-e-Firoza) on Nowruz, the Persian new year, following the autumnal solstice in 764 AH.[102]

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