BAHAMANI EMPIRE

BAHAMANI KINGDOM

▪ The Bahamani kingdom was

established in 1347 CE by Hasan
Gangu, who took th ename Ala-ud-
din Bahman Shah as his title.
▪ He brought the rebellious nobles
under his control and established
peace and an efficient
administration.

▪ The kingdom extended from the

Arabian sea to the Bay of Bengal.
 MUHAMMAD SHAH 1

He fought wars
Muhammad Shah I against the
was the eldest son Vijayanagara and
of Zafar khan. Warangal kingdoms
and defeated them.
 ▪ He ruled 1397 to 1422 CE and was the eight ruler of the
dynasty. He defeated the Vijaynagara kings in two
major battles,but lost the third one in 1420 CE.
▪ He step down from the throne in favour of his brother,
Ahmed Shah.
FIROZ SHAH ▪ Ahmed Shah defeated and ransacked the city of
BAHMANI Vijayanagar.
▪ He shifted the capital from Gulbarga to Bidar.
 ▪ Mahmud Gawan (1463 – 1481 CE) was a Persian prime
minister in the Bahmani Sultanate of Deccan. Khwaja
Mahmud Gilani, from the village of Gawan in Persia, was
well-versed in Islamic theology, Persian
language and Mathematics and was a poet and a prose
MAHMUD writer of repute.

GAWAN ▪ Mahmud Gawan served the state most faithfully and

enlarged the kingdom to an extent never achieved before.
He conquered Kanchi or Kanjeevaram during campaign
against Vijayanagar. He fought successful wars against
rulers of Konkan, Sangameshwara, Orissa and Vijayanagar.
He captured Goa and Dhabol, the best part of Vijayanagar
empire.
▪ He defeated the ruler of Warangal.
 ▪ Mahmud Gawan introduced several reforms:
▪ The kingdom was divided into eight provinces or tarafs.
▪ Madrasa were built for Islamic learning in Bidar.
▪ The Deccan nobles disliked Gawan, they conspired
= against him and got him executed in 1481CE.
▪ Bahamani kingdom declined and got divided into five
independent states- Berar, Bidar, Ahmadnagar and
Golconda.
 CONTRIBUTION
OF BAHAMANI
KINGDOM
The Bahamani rulers were the patrons
of art and architecture, language,
literature and music.
GOL GUMBAZ
 ▪ In the field of Architecture, the Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur is
famous, it has a dome with 53.4m high.
▪ Golconda rulers also built Charminar at Hyderabad.
▪ Many students from Iran and Iraq came to study at
Madrasa built by Mahmud Gawan.
Architecture
▪ Jama masjid at Gulbarga, Fort of Golconda and the
tomb of Ahmed Shah at Bidar.
▪ Gol Gumbaz has the second the largest dome in the
world.
▪ Both the kingdoms wanted to keep the fertile land of
Raichur Doab, lying between the Krishna and
Conflicts
Tungabhadra river, as it was a very fertile and
productive land.
between
▪ Both wanted to control the Krishna-Godavari Doab, it
was fertile, and several important ports were located
Vijaynagar
here.
and
▪ Both the powers converted the narrow Konkan Coast
because of its fertile land and port of Goa. Bahmani