Deccan Plateau

large plateau in India

variety of Hindustani spoken in the Deccan region of India; native language of the Deccani people

The Deccanis or Deccani people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-religious community of Deccani-speaking Muslims who inhabit or are from the Deccan region of India. The community traces its origins to the shifting of the Delhi Sultanate's capital from Delhi to Daulatabad in 1327 during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughluq. Further ancestry can also be traced from immigrant Muslims referred to as Afaqis, also known as Pardesis who came from Central Asia, Iraq and Iran and had settled in the Deccan region during the Bahmani Sultanate (1347). The migration of Muslim Hindavi-speaking people to the Deccan and i

famine in the Deccan Plateau and Gujarat during the Mughal Empire

former country

mountain range in India

deccani and Hyderabadi Urdu-language film industry