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The Sultanate of Ahmednagar or the Nizam Shahi Sultanate was a late medieval Indian Muslim kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur, ruled by the Nizam Shahi or Bahri dynasty.
Ahmednagar Sultanate. Also known as the Nizam Shahi dynasty, the Ahmadnagar Sultanate was established by Malik Ahmed Shah Bahri after defeating the Bahmani Army led by Jahangir Khan on May 28, 1490. The territory of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate was situated between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur in the north-western part of the Deccan plateau.
The Deccan sultanates is a historiographical term referring to five late medieval to early modern Indian kingdoms on the Deccan Plateau between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range that were created from the disintegration of the Bahmani Sultanate [1][2] and ruled by Muslim dynasties: namely Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda. [3] .
Jul 11, 2024 · Taking advantage of the disarray and internal conflicts within the Bahmani Sultanate, Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I declared his independence and established the Nizamshahi Kingdom in 1490. He chose Ahmednagar as the capital, a strategic location in the western Deccan Plateau.
The Ahmadnagar Sultanate was a late medieval Indian kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur. Malik Ahmad, the Bahmani governor of Junnar after defeating the Bahmani army led by general Jahangir Khan on 28 May 1490 declared independence and established the Nizam Shahi dynasty rule over the ...
May 5, 2020 · The Nizam Shahs left a glorious architectural legacy in Ahmadnagar, the Sultanate’s capital in the Deccan, but the city’s historic fabric is fast eroding. Using Ahmadnagar as a test case, we dive deep into the reasons our built heritage is in peril and figure out a way forward.
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Dec 25, 2022 · The Nizam Shahs were sons of the soil—the first sultan, Ahmed, was born to a converted Brahmin—and patronised both Sanskrit scholars from around India as well as Marathi culture and local talent. Bhakti saints like Eknath thrived in the sultanate’s intellectual climate; in fact, Eknath’s guru was a Nizam Shahi commander.
