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Write brief essay: The Bahmani kingdom.

  • UPSC 2005
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

The Bahmani kingdom was the first independent Muslim sultanate to establish itself in peninsular India, carved out of a rebellion against Delhi's authority in the Deccan and surviving for roughly one hundred and eighty years before splintering into successor states.

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  • Founding and Early Consolidation
  • Shift to Bidar and the Territorial Zenith
  • Mahmud Gawan and the Zenith of Ministerial Power
  • Decline and Fragmentation into the Deccan Sultanates

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