Collection · 2 essays · 2 entries
Bidar Sultanate
Everything the archive holds on Bidar Sultanate, 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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Essays
- The Kingmakers of Bidar: The Barid Shahi Sultanate — 12 sources
Entries
- PlaceBidar — capital from 1424
- DynastyThe Barid Shahis of Bidar — 1492 – 1619
The edge of what is written
Mapped, and begun — not yet enough behind them to stand as collections of their own:
- Annexed by Bijapur 1619 — 1 entry so far
Mapped on the Atlas, nothing written yet:
Barid Shahi Dynasty — from 1492 · Qasim Barid — kingmaker from 1487 · Ali Barid Shah 1542–1580
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.
Ali Barid's assumption of the royal title: 1542 (Britannica, INFLIBNET module) versus 950 AH / 1543-44 (Encyclopaedia Iranica).
Qasim Barid's origins conflict at the root: Iranica has him sold as a slave from the Caucasus to Muhammad Shah III, while Iqtidar Alam Khan (quoted in tertiary sources, not fetched directly) calls him 'the son of a Bahmani noble of Turkish origin'. Both cannot be fully right.
The Rangin Mahal's authorship is unresolved: national tourism sources credit its construction to Ali Barid Shah (1542-1580), but the district gazetteer says only that it was 'rebuilt during Barid Shahi period', and fort literature lists it among structures of Bahmani date.
Secondary accounts state Bidar was renamed Zafarabad after the 1657 Mughal capture; this detail was not verified against a tier-A source here and is omitted from the essay.