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The Bahamani Kingdom: Administration

  • UPSC 2007
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

The Bahmani kingdom, founded in 1347 by Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, is remembered not only for its rivalry with Vijayanagara but for building the Deccan's first elaborate Indo-Persian administrative apparatus — one whose central logic was the constant, ultimately unresolved, management of tension between the sultan's centre and an increasingly assertive nobility.

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  • Central Administration
  • Provincial Administration: Tarafs and Tarafdars
  • Mahmud Gawan's Administrative Reforms
  • Local and Village Administration
  • Military Administration and the Deccani–Afaqi Fault Line

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