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Berar Sultanate
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Essays
- The Quietest Throne: Berar under the Imad Shahis — 7 sources
Entries
- DynastyThe Imad Shahis of Berar — 1490 – 1574
- PersonFathullah Imad-ul-Mulk — r. 1484 – 1504
- PersonAla-ud-Din Imad Shah — r. 1504 – 1529
- PersonDarya Imad Shah — r. 1529 – 1562
- PersonBurhan Imad Shah — r. 1562 – 1568
- PersonTufal Khan — r. 1568 – 1574 (usurper)
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Mapped, and begun — not yet enough behind them to stand as collections of their own:
- Annexed by Ahmadnagar 1574 — 1 entry so far
Mapped on the Atlas, nothing written yet:
Imad Shahi Dynasty — from 1490 · Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk — founder 1490 · Capital Ellichpur
What the archive does not know
Every unresolved question the sources left open across this collection, gathered in one place rather than buried at the foot of each page.
Berar's afterlife is longer than its independence and is missing here. It was ceded to Akbar by Chand Bibi in 1596, became the Nizam of Hyderabad's in 1724, was handed to British administration in 1853 while the Nizam kept formal sovereignty, and was absorbed into the Central Provinces in 1903 — the Nizam's heir still holding the title Prince of Berar. The archive's essay on the Nizams covers that arc; this one stops in 1574.
Fathullah's death year: 1504 (Imperial Gazetteer, Wikipedia) versus 1510 at Ellichpur (Maharashtra State Gazetteer). The five-to-six-year gap is unexplained in the sources consulted.
Was the effective capital Ellichpur or Gavilgarh under Alauddin? The Imperial Gazetteer says he 'made Gawilgarh his capital,' while other accounts keep the court at Ellichpur throughout.
Darya Imad Shah's death is variously given as 1561 (Maharashtra gazetteer), 1560-1 (Imperial Gazetteer), and 1562 (Wikipedia).
The poisoning of Burhan, Tufal Khan, and Shams-ul-Mulk at Lohogad is reported by the gazetteer only as hearsay ('It was said that they were poisoned') — the exact manner of their deaths is unverifiable.
Whether any Imad Shahi court chronicle, inscription corpus, or coinage study beyond the Gavilgarh inscriptions survives is unclear from the online record; the dynasty is known almost entirely through Ferishta and the Burhan-i Ma’asir, both written elsewhere.
Fathullah's Brahmin caste attribution appears in the Imperial Gazetteer (citing Ferishta) and Wikipedia, but the earlier Briggs translation excerpt says only 'Canarese infidels of Beejanuggur' — the Brahmin detail may be a later elaboration.