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- The Kingmakers of Bidar: The Barid Shahi Sultanate — essay · Bidar Sultanate · 12 sourcesThey were prime ministers who outlasted the kings they served: for over three decades the Barid family ruled the wreckage of the Bahmani sultanate through puppet sultans before daring to call themselves kings at all. Theirs was the smallest of the five Deccan successor states — but their capital, inherited whole from the Bahmanis, was grander than any kingdom they ever governed.
- Annexed by Bijapur 1619: The Extinction of the Barid Shahi Sultanate — essay · Annexed by Bijapur 1619 · 30 sourcesBidar was the smallest of the Deccan sultanates and the one with the grandest address: the hill-top capital the Bahmani sultans had built, inherited by the family of ministers who had hollowed the Bahmani state out from inside. For rather more than a century the Barid Shahis held that city while their neighbours took their districts one by one, until in 1619 Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur marched on Bidar, carried off its last king and his sons, and made the old imperial capital a provincial governorship. The event is agreed by every serious authority and narrated at length by none of them — a few sentences in the chronicles, two inscriptions inside the fort, and a set of unresolved disagreements about the name of the man who lost.
- Bidar — Place · capital from 1424 · Bidar SultanateSecond Bahmani capital, site of a Timurid-model college — and the town that gave its name to an inlay technique.
- The Barid Shahis of Bidar — Dynasty · 1492 – 1619 · Bidar SultanateThe house that held the Bahmani capital without ever taking the Bahmani throne — a ministry that became a dynasty by keeping its sovereigns alive and powerless.