Berar (Sultanate)

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Berar
1490-1574
flag coat of arms
Capital Ellichpur
Form of government sultanate
surface 29,340 km²
founding 1490
resolution 1574
State religion: Islam
Dynasty: Imad Shahi
Map with the location of Berar (around 1500)
Map with the location of Berar (around 1500)
Gawilgarh Fortress
Gawilgarh Fortress

The Sultanate of Berar was one of the five central Indian Deccan sultanates that emerged from the Bahmani Sultanate . It was founded in 1490 and lasted until submission by the Sultanate of Ahmadnagar in 1574 . The capital was Gawilgarh ( Gawil ). Berar was the only one of the five Deccan sultanates not to take part in the Battle of Talikota (1565) against the South Indian Hindu Empire Vijayanagar .

history

In 1490 the governor Imad ul-Mulk broke away from the Bahmani Sultanate, proclaimed himself sultan and thus founded the Imad Shahi dynasty . By 1498 he had largely consolidated the empire that stretched to the east of what is now the Indian state of Maharashtra . After 1527, the western sultanate of Ahmadnagar expanded at the expense of Berar. The overthrow of the Imad Shahi by the minister Tufal Khan in 1568 was the occasion for Ahmadnagar to invade Berar and to annex it two years later. In 1596 Berar came to the Mughal Empire .