Kharara

  The Rise and Fall of the Bahmani Dynasty: The Kingdom of Hasan Gangu – By Dr. Rahul S. Kharat Introduction Few episodes in the history of medieval India are as consequential, and yet as insufficiently appreciated in popular memory, as the career of the Bahmani Sultanate of the Deccan. Founded in 1347 CE by a rebel Turkic-Afghan officer who took the throne name Ala-ud-Din Hasan Bahman Shah — remembered to posterity by his original name, Hasan Gangu — the Bahmani kingdom endured for roughly a century and three-quarters, presiding over one of the most creative and cosmopolitan political experiments of pre-colonial South Asia. It was a state that fused Persian courtly culture with the martial traditions of the Deccan plateau, that patronised architecture of extraordinary originality, that hosted an extraordinary diversity of peoples — Deccani Muslims of long standing, newly arrived "Afaqi" or "Gharib" nobles from Persia, Central Asia and Iraq, Hindu Brahmin administra...