भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

however, was able and warlike in spirit. Because of his honest and diligent service, his valour and prudence, that Muslim state managed to exist somehow between A.D. 1484 and 1526. But some Muslim noblemen, who were Mohammed Gawan’s enemies at the court, contrived to have him killed by royal order. It must be remembered that, however great Mohammed Gawan might be, like practically every other Muslim ruler, he never left anything undone to persecute the Hindus in the Bahamani Kingdom. Yet he met his doom, not at the hands of the Hindus, but at those of his own Muslim colleagues. 886. Even before the death of Mohammed Gawan, the Sultan’s capital had been shifted to Bidar, and after his death, that feeble Muslim power was broken up into the following five parts:

1. Adilshahi of Vijapur.
2. Imadshahi of Berar (Varhad or Vidarbha (1484-1503).
3. Kut-b-Shahi of Gowalkonda.
4. Nizamshahi of Ahmednagar (1489 to 1637).
5. Baridshahi of Bidar.
6. Two remarkable things about this break-up of the Bahamani Kingdom should well be remembered, especially by the Hindus. The first is that the founder of Imadshahi of Berar (second in the above list) was originally a Telangi Brahmin. His father lived in Vijaynagar. In one of the battles with Vijaynagar, this son of a Telangi Brahmin was captured by the Bahamani Muslims, who, true to their wicked custom, converted him to Islam. He was, thereafter, raised to a higher status by the kindness of Gawan. At last in A.D. 1484, he divorced himself from the Bahamani Kingdom and as a Muslim, took for himself the proud title of Imadshah and proclaimed himself an independent ruler of the Province of Berar, relegated to his charge.
7. The second remarkable fact is that of the foundation of the Nizamshahi of Ahmednagar, the fourth fragment of the Bahamani Kingdom. At Vijaynagar, there was a Brahmin named Timmappa Bahiru (Bhairao?), whose son was taken captive and converted to Islam, when Ahmedshah was at war with Viaynagar. He was renamed Ahmed. When this convert Ahmed was posted at the command of a big Muslim army, he utilized his authority to break loose from the Bahamani domination and established his own Sultanate in A.D. 1489. Because of his title of the Nizam, his Sultanate came to be known as Nizamshahi. In his domain was