Afghan-Turkic sultanate on the Malwa plateau of central India, founded by Dilawar Khan Ghuri after he broke from the Delhi Sultanate; its capital Mandu became a celebrated center of Indo-Islamic architecture under rulers like Hoshang Shah.
Conquered by the Mughal Empire in 1562, when Akbar's army under Abdullah Khan defeated the last ruler, Baz Bahadur; the territory became the Mughal Malwa Subah.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Malwa Sultanate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1401 · 1490.
No Malwa-specific monograph was found verified on Open Library; this standard survey (Part One covers 1206-1526) devotes a chapter to the post-Tughlaq regional sultanates including Malwa's rise and fall, so it is used as a verified fallback rather than a fabricated polity-specific title.