Berar Sultanate

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Sultanate of Berar
वऱ्हाड
1490–1572
Dakhini
Religion
Islam
GovernmentMonarchy
Sultan 
• 1490 – 1504
Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk (first)
• 1568 – 1572
Tufail Khan (last)
History 
• 
Ahmednagar Sultanate
1572
Area
29,340 km2 (11,330 sq mi)
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Bahmani Sultanate
Ahmadnagar Sultanate
Today part ofIndia
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Berar". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Berar Sultanate, also known as the Imad Shahi Sultanate was an early modern Indian kingdom in the Deccan peninsula.[2] It was one of the Deccan sultanates and established in 1490 following the disintegration of the Bahmani Sultanate,[3] and was annexed by Ahmadnagar in the 1572 invasion.

History

Background

The origin of the name Berar or Warhad (वऱ्हाड) as it is spelled in Marathi, is not known. The first authentic records show it to have been part of the Andhra or

Muslim invasions at the end of the 13th century. On the establishment of the Bahmani Sultanate in the Deccan (1348), Berar was constituted one of the five provinces into which their kingdom was divided, being governed by great nobles, with a separate army. The perils of this system became apparent when the province was divided (1478 or 1479) into two separate provinces, named after their capitals Gawil and Mahur
. The Bahmani dynasty was, however, already tottering to its fall.

Establishment of the Berar Sultanate

During the disintegration of Bahmani sultanate, in 1490

Gavilgad and Narnala
were also fortified by him.

He died in 1504 and his successor, Aladdin Imad Shah resisted the aggression of Ahmadnagar with the help from Bahadur Shah, sultan of Gujarat. The next ruler, Darya tried to align with Bijapur to prevent aggression from Ahmadnagar, but was unsuccessful. In 1568, Burhan Imad Shah was deposed by his minister Tufail Khan, and assumed the kingship. This gave a pretext for the intervention of Murtaza Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar, who invaded Berar, imprisoned and put to death Tufail Khan, his son Shams-ul-Mulk, and the former-king Burhan, and proceeded to annex Berar into his own dominions of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate.

List of Sultans of Berar

Gavilgad Fort, built by Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk
of Berar (1490 – 1504).

The Sultans of Berar belonged to the Imad Shahi Dynasty:

  1. Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk: 1490 – 1504
  2. Aladdin Imad Shah: 1504 – 1529
  3. Chandrabhaga River which today is a municipal council under the Amravati District
    .
  4. Burhan Imad Shah: 1562 – 1568[4]
  5. Tufail Khan (usurper): 1568 – 1572[5]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0226742210
    .
  2. ^ John Cadwgan Powell-Price (1955). A History of India. T. Nelson. p. 200.
  3. ISBN 978-9-38060-734-4
    .
  4. ISBN 0-521-56321-6
    , p.275
  5. ^ Robert Sewell. Lists of inscriptions, and sketch of the dynasties of southern India (The New Cambridge History of India Vol. I:7), Printed by E. Keys at the Government Press, 1884, , p.166

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