The Bahmani Sultanate was the first independent Islamic sultanate in the Deccan, a major center of Persian culture and Indo-Islamic architecture, and the primary adversary of Vijayanagara before fracturing into the five Deccan Sultanates.
The Bahmani Sultanate dissolved between 1490 and 1518 CE as its five major provinces broke away to form independent successor sultanates — Bijapur (1490), Ahmadnagar (1490), Berar (1490), Bidar (1492), and Golconda (1518) — with the nominal last sultan Kalimullah Shah fleeing in 1527 CE.
A vivid, in-print history of the Deccan that opens with the Bahmani Sultanate and its founding through the lives of its people.
Sweeping history of the Persianate world in India; covers the Deccan sultanates including the Bahmani realm and its rivalry with Vijayanagara within its 1000-1765 frame.