{"id":18243,"date":"2023-12-17T06:31:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T04:11:04","slug":"bahmani-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bahmani-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahmani Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Bahmani Kingdom<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bahmani Kingdom\u00a0rose to power\u00a0after the Turkish Governor Ala-ud-din Hassan Bahman Shan\u00a0established an\u00a0independent empire by revolting against the Sultan of Delhi Sultanate,\u00a0Muhammad Bin Tughlaq in 1347.<\/li>\n<li>It was the\u00a0first independent Islamic kingdom in South India that rose to power.<\/li>\n<li>It was established in\u00a0present-day Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Andhra Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>They set up the\u00a0capital in Ahsanabad (Gulbarga) between 1347 and 1425\u00a0and later moved to Bidar.<\/li>\n<li>There were a\u00a0total of fourteen sultans ruling over this kingdom. Among them, Alauddin Bahman Shah, Muhammad Shah I and Firoz Shah were important.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Bahmani kingdom\u00a0reached its peak under the\u00a0guidance of Mahmud Gawan, who served with great distinction as\u00a0Prime Minister of three Bahamni Sultans for about twenty-three years\u00a0from 1458 to 1481 AD.<\/li>\n<li>Mahmud Gawan extended the empire\u00a0by\u00a0reconquering Goa, which was under the Vijayanagar Empire at the time.<\/li>\n<li>Administration:\n<ul>\n<li>The kingdom was\u00a0divided into four administrative regions or provinces\u00a0called \u2018taraf\u2019. These were\u00a0Daulatabad, Bidar, Berar, and Gulbarga.<\/li>\n<li>Each province had a tarafdar, or\u00a0subedar.<\/li>\n<li>Bahmani\u00a0rulers were\u00a0dependent on their amirs for military support.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0used gunpowder in wars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Art and Architecture:\n<ul>\n<li>The Bahmanis were known to have an\u00a0enthusiasm for architecture and art.<\/li>\n<li>In architecture, the Bahmani period followed the\u00a0Indo-Islamic style of architecture with a few changes.<\/li>\n<li>Buildings were\u00a0constructed using local materials. An\u00a0influence of Persian architecture could be seen in the buildings of this period.<\/li>\n<li>Examples of architecture could be found at Gulbarga (Shah bazaar mosque,\u00a0Hafta Gumbaz, Jama maszid), at Bijapur (Gol gumbaz, Ibrahim roza, Bara Kaman, etc.), and at Bidar (Rangeen mahal, Janata mahal).<\/li>\n<li>During this period,\u00a0Urdu, Arabic, and Persian literature were abundant.<\/li>\n<li>It was during this\u00a0period when a new dialect, \u2018Dakhini Urdu\u2019 prevailed.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Decline:\n<ul>\n<li>Around 1518,\u00a0Krishnadeva Raya of the Vijayanagar Empire\u00a0defeated the last ruler of the Bahmani Empire.<\/li>\n<li>After this, the Bahmani Empire\u00a0broke down into five states, collectively\u00a0known as Deccan Sultanates.<\/li>\n<li>These five Deccan Sultanates\u00a0were: Adilshahi of Bijapur, Baridshahis of Bidar, Nizamshahi of Ahmadnagar, Qutubshahi of Golconda (Hyderabad), and\u00a0Imadshahi of Berar.<\/li>\n<li>These states\u00a0commenced declaring independence from the Bahmani kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>Angered by the disintegration,\u00a0Bidar, Ahmadnagar, Golconda, and Bijapur together attacked Vijayanagar.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0latter was defeated in 1565\u00a0in what is known as the\u00a0Battle of Talikota.<\/li>\n<li>After Vijayanagar was destroyed, Bahmani\u00a0did not remain in power for long.\u00a0Akbar, and then Aurangzeb annexed these kingdoms into the Mughal Empire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who was Krishnadevaraya?<\/h3>\n<p>The greatest emperor in the Vijayanagar empire\u2019s history was Krishnadevaraya(17 January 1471-17 October 1529). He presided over the Tuluva Dynasty as its third king. By overthrowing the sultans of Bijapur, Golconda, the Bahmani Sultanate, and the Gajapatis of Odisha, he rose to power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewsminute.com\/karnataka\/karnataka-hc-asks-authorities-to-remove-encroachments-of-bahmani-sultans-fort-in-kalaburagi#:~:text=The%20High%20Court%20bench%20in,the%20surroundings%20of%20the%20fort.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Karnataka HC asks authorities to remove encroachments of Bahmani Sultans&#8217; fort in Kalaburagi<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahmani Kingdom was the first independent Islamic kingdom in South India that rose to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}