Sultanate of Ahmednagar | |||||||||
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| 1490–1636 | |||||||||
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![Extent of Ahmadnagar Sultanate.[1]](view_image.php?q=Ahmadnagar_Sultanate&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Deccan_Sultanates_and_Vijayanagara_Empire_1490_-_1687_CE.jpg) Extent of Ahmadnagar Sultanate.[1] | |||||||||
| Capital | Junnar (1490–1494; 1610) Ahmednagar (1494–1600) Daulatabad (1499–1636, secondary capital) Paranda (1600–1610) Aurangabad (1610–1636) | ||||||||
| Official languages | Persian | ||||||||
| Common languages | Marathi Deccani (language of the ruling class) | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam until 1538,[2] Muhammad-Shahi (Mu'mini) Nizari Isma'ili Shi'a Islam 1538 onwards, Mahdawi movement during the reign of Ismail Nizam Shah (1589-91) | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||
• 1490–1510 | Ahmad Nizam Shah I (first) | ||||||||
• 1633–1636 | Murtaza Nizam Shah III (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 28 May 1490 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1636 | ||||||||
| Currency | Falus[3] | ||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||
The Sultanate of Ahmednagar or the Nizam Shahi Sultanate was a late medieval Indian Muslim kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur, ruled by the Nizam Shahi or Bahri dynasty.[4][5] It was established when Malik Ahmed, the Bahmani governor of Junnar, after defeating the Bahmani army led by general Jahangir Khan on 28 May 1490, declared independence and established the Ahmadnagar Sultanate.[6]
Initially the capital was in the town of Junnar with its fort, later renamed Shivneri. In 1494, the foundation was laid for the new capital Ahmednagar. In 1636 Aurangzeb, then Mughal viceroy of Deccan, annexed the sultanate to the Mughal Empire.
- ^ For a map of their territory see: Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 147, map XIV.4 (d). ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Schimmel, Annemarie (1980). Islam in the Subcontinent. BRILL. p. 55. ISBN 9004061177.
- ^ Stan Goron and J.P. Goenka, The coins of the Indian sultanates : covering the area of present-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal, 2001).
- ^ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal:Volume 44. Bishop's College Press. 1875. p. 38.
- ^ John Horace Parry (1981). The Age of Reconnaissance. the University of California Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780520042353.
- ^ Sen, Sailendra (2013). A Textbook of Medieval Indian History. Primus Books. p. 118. ISBN 978-9-38060-734-4.