Deccan sultanates

former country

Southern Indian kingdom (1490–1636)

former country

1565 battle between the Deccan Sultanates and Vijayanagara Empire

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

sultanate which existed in central India in from 1518 AD to 1687 AD, ruled by the Quṭb Shāhī dynasty

Deccan sultanate

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

form of miniature painting