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Malik Ambar (1548 – 13 May 1626) was a military leader who served as the Peshwa (Prime Minister) of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in the Deccan region of India. [5] Born in the Adal Sultanate, which comprised parts of present-day Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti, Malik was sold by a slave merchant and brought to India as a slave.
Malik Ambar was a prime minister and general of African descent who served the Ahmadnagar Sultanate. He is regarded as a pioneer in guerilla warfare in the region along with being credited for carrying out a revenue settlement of much of the Deccan, which formed the basis for subsequent settlements.
May 9, 2020 · The story of Malik Ambar, an African slave turned warrior, is an unusual one. Sold and bought several times by slave dealers during his youth, fate brought him miles away from his home in Ethiopia to India.
Oct 6, 2021 · Who is Malik Ambar? The African Slave turned Indian Mercenary Kingmaker. Leading his army of freed slaves to guard fabulously wealthy lands far from his Ethiopian home, Malik Ambar embodies the rags to riches story like no one else. Oct 6, 2021 • By Varun Gupta, BA History & English Literature. Malik Ambar with a Rose by unknown, 1600-1610.
May 31, 2021 · Malik Ambar (1548–13 May 1626) was a Siddi military leader and the prime minister of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in India's Deccan region. Malik was born in the Adal Sultunate, in present-day Ethiopia, and was sold as a child and brought to India as a slave.
Aug 30, 2011 · Malik Ambar was among the tens of thousands of men, women, and children captured in Africa and sold into slavery in the Middle East and India over nearly nine centuries. His story is also an indication of the ability of some in the predominantly Muslim Indian Ocean world to rise far above their initial servile status.
Aug 31, 2016 · Malik Ambar, or Chapu as he was known at birth, was the Ethiopian who thwarted and irritated the Mughals for decades, and has today been largely forgotten.
Mar 28, 2008 · An Ethiopian slave known to history as “Malik Ambar” was already seventeen years old in 1565, the year of the Battle of Talikota. If that date signaled the beginning of a slide into near-oblivion for the city of Vijayanagara, for the Ethiopian it heralded the dawn of an extraordinary career.
Jun 2, 2015 · Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles the life of Malik Ambar, an Ethiopian slave who rose to become a power-broker and king maker. Malik Ambar's story challenges some of our...
Malik Ambar, who went on to become the Prime Minister of Ahmadnagar, was born in 1549 at Harar in Ethiopia, and was sold as a slave in the market of Baghdad to Qaziu’l Quzat of Mecca and...
