Sultanate of Bidar | |||||||||
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1492–1619 | |||||||||
Bidar Sultanate in the 1525, with neighbouring polities.[1] | |||||||||
Capital | Bidar | ||||||||
Common languages | Persian (official)[2] Deccani Urdu, Kannada | ||||||||
Religion | Sunni Islam[3] | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Sultan | |||||||||
• 1489 – 1504 | Qasim Barid I | ||||||||
• 1609 – 1619 | Amir Barid Shah III (last) | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1492 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1619 | ||||||||
Currency | Mohur | ||||||||
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Today part of | India |
The Sultanate of Bidar was an early modern Indian polity that ruled a territory in the central Deccan centred at Bidar.[4] As one of the Deccan sultanates, the sultanate's initial territory corresponded to that of one of the five provinces of the Bahmani Sultanate, and under the rule of Qasim Barid I in 1492 assumed de facto control of state affairs of the Bahmani Sultanate. Leadership passed to his sons; Amir Barid I in 1504 and Ali Barid Shah I in 1542. Starting from the 1580s as a result of Ali's death, a wave of successions occurred in the rulership of the dynasty which ended in 1609 under the last sultan, Amir Barid III. He was eventually defeated in 1619 by Ibrahim Adil Shah II of the Sultanate of Bijapur, who annexed the territory of the Bidar Sultanate into his realm.