Sultanate of Berar عمادشاهیان वऱ्हाड | |||||||||
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| 1490–1574 | |||||||||
![Berar Sultanate at its Peak under Tufail Khan before being annexed by Ahmednagar Sultanate[1]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aBerar_Sultanate.png) | |||||||||
| Capital | Ellichpur | ||||||||
| Common languages | |||||||||
| Religion | State religion: Sunni Islam[2] Other: Other religions in South Asia | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Sultan | |||||||||
• 1490 – 1504 | Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk (first) | ||||||||
• 1568 – 1574 | Tufail Khan (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1490 | |||||||||
• Conquered by theAhmednagar Sultanate | 1574 | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 29,340 km2 (11,330 sq mi) | |||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||
 This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Berar".Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. | |||||||||
TheBerar Sultanate was anearly modern Indian kingdom in the Deccan, ruled by theImad Shahi dynasty.[n 1][3] It was one of theDeccan sultanates, and was established in 1490 following the disintegration of theBahmani Sultanate byFathullah Imad-ul-Mulk.[4] It was annexed by theAhmadnagar Sultanate in 1574 following an invasion.
On the establishment of theBahmani Sultanate in the Deccan in 1347, Berar was constituted one of the five provinces into which their kingdom was divided, being governed by atarafdar, with a separate army. The perils of this system became apparent when the province was divided (1478 or 1479) into two separate provinces, named after their capitalsGawil andMahur.[citation needed]
In 1490,Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk, who had been appointed governor of Berar byMahmud Gawan after assisting him in his campaigns,[5] proclaimed his independence amidst the civil unrest in the Bahmani Sultanate and founded the Imad Shahi dynasty of Berar.[6] He proceeded to annexMahur to his new kingdom and had its capital atEllichpur.[citation needed] Imad-ul-Mulk was by birth aKanarese Hindu, but had been captured as a boy in one of the expeditions against theVijayanagara Empire and brought up as a Muslim.[6]Gavilgad andNarnala were also fortified by him.[5]
Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk died in 1504 and his successor,Aladdin Imad Shah resisted the aggression of Ahmadnagar with the help fromBahadur Shah, sultan ofGujarat.[7] The next ruler, Darya, ascended the throne in 1530 and tried to align withBijapur to prevent aggression from Ahmadnagar, but was unsuccessful.[5] Early in his reign, the minorBurhan Imad Shah, who succeeded his father in 1562, was deposed by his minister and regentTufail Khan, who assumed rule of the Sultanate. This gave a pretext for the intervention ofMurtaza Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar, who invaded Berar, imprisoned and put to death Tufail Khan, his sonShams-ul-Mulk, and the former-king Burhan, and proceeded to annex Berar into his own dominions of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in 1574.[8][5]
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The sultans of Berar belonged to the Imad Shahi dynasty:
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