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Adil Shahi Dynasty
Everything the archive holds on Adil Shahi Dynasty, gathered from across the map. The Atlas files a topic once, in one branch; a collection brings back together what that filing separates.
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- PersonYusuf Adil Shah — r. 1490 – 1510
- PersonIsmail Adil Shah — r. 1510 – 1534
- PersonMallu Adil Shah — r. 1534, deposed and blinded within the year
- PersonIbrahim Adil Shah I — r. 1534 – 1558
- PersonAli Adil Shah I — r. 1558 – 1580
- PersonMuhammad Adil Shah — r. 1627 – 1656
- PersonAli Adil Shah II — r. 1656 – 1672
- PersonSikandar Adil Shah — r. 1672 – 1686, the last
- PersonKamal Khan Deccany — regent, 1510–1511
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No Atlas node currently names the khutba or the chatr as instruments; this essay had to file on 'Adil Shahi Dynasty' as a dynasty-level fallback. A node such as 'Khutba & Canopy' or 'Insignia of Sovereignty' under Court Life & Royal Culture would let this and future iconography essays join the graph properly.
The Khutba and the Chatr: Sovereignty as Two Acts in Ferishta's Deccan
The full narrative behind Burhan Nizam Shah I's coerced khutba for Bahadur Shah of Gujarat (p.211) sits later in that chapter, past what was read here; only the chapter-argument line was opened, and the body narrative should be read before this episode is treated as settled.
The Khutba and the Chatr: Sovereignty as Two Acts in Ferishta's Deccan
Britannica's khutbah entry and the Iranica Adil Shahi article both returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch in this session; the Iranica quote used here was drawn instead from the archive's own already-verified Yusuf Adil Shah essay sources rather than a fresh fetch, and a working direct citation to Britannica or Iranica should replace or supplement it when those sites are reachable.
The Khutba and the Chatr: Sovereignty as Two Acts in Ferishta's Deccan
No secondary source specifically on the chatr/parasol as a regalia object (as distinct from the khutba) was located and opened; Wikipedia's Chhatri article covers only the architectural form. A dedicated source on parasol regalia in Deccan or wider Islamicate courts is still needed.
The Khutba and the Chatr: Sovereignty as Two Acts in Ferishta's Deccan
Whether the 'scarlet cap of twelve points' Ibrahim I forbids (p.78) is itself an insignia object distinct from the khutba and canopy — and whether it deserves its own treatment once the vocabulary items in the domain brief (khil'at, naubat, alam) are filled — was not pursued here.
The Khutba and the Chatr: Sovereignty as Two Acts in Ferishta's Deccan
The Portuguese-side or epigraphic record for any of these six episodes was not checked; every claim in this essay rests on one chronicler's narration, translated a century after some of the events it describes.
The Khutba and the Chatr: Sovereignty as Two Acts in Ferishta's Deccan