# The Bahmani sultanate
**बहमनी सल्तनत**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/bahmani-1347/
- Chapter: [Cholas to the Sultanate](https://indianepics.online/chapter/medieval.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1347 CE
- Where: Gulbarga (Kalaburagi) fort, Karnataka (17.336, 76.832)
- Tags: state-formation, political

## Summary

On 3 August 1347 rebel Deccan amirs proclaim Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah sultan; ruling from Gulbarga, he ends Delhi's hold on the Deccan.

3 अगस्त 1347 को विद्रोही दक्कनी अमीरों ने अलाउद्दीन हसन बहमन शाह को सुल्तान घोषित किया; गुलबर्गा से शासन कर उसने दक्कन पर दिल्ली की पकड़ तोड़ दी।

## Account

The revolt began in 1345 among the centurion amirs, officers of the Deccan provinces whom Muhammad bin Tughluq had threatened with punishment. They seized Daulatabad and raised one of their number, Ismail Mukh, to the throne; he stood down in favour of the commander Hasan, who took the title Alauddin Bahman Shah. Hasan made Gulbarga his capital, and his successors moved to Bidar in the 1420s.

The Bahmani state set the Deccan's political line for two centuries: a sultanate north of the Krishna facing Vijayanagara across the Raichur doab. When it broke up between 1490 and 1527 into the sultanates of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Berar, Golconda and Bidar, they inherited the same frontier.

The dynasty's name is argued over. Its court claimed descent from Bahman, a legendary king of ancient Iran; Firishta repeats a story that Hasan had once served a Brahmin astrologer named Gangu, hence the name Hasan Gangu. Modern historians treat the Gangu story as legend and the Persian genealogy as a claim to prestige.

## Sources

- Firishta, tr. Briggs, History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, vol. II — https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.57894 (Hasan crowned on Friday 24 Rabi' al-Akhir 748; Briggs's margin prints 12 August, but the Hijri date and the weekday both give 3 August 1347. Also the Gangu story)
- Eaton, A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761 (2005)

## Image

Great Mosque in Gulbarga Fort.. Dayal, Deen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGreat_Mosque_in_Gulbarga_Fort..jpg

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