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• Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I — Person · r. 1490 – 1510 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Son of a Bahmani minister, he took his own name into the Friday prayer at Junnar, withdrew it when his officers objected, and put it back when they asked — Ferishta’s account of how the Ahmadnagar sultanate began is an account of hesitation.
• Burhan Nizam Shah I — Person · r. 1510 – 1553 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Succeeded at seven under a protector, survived a palace plot to replace him with his infant brother, reigned forty-seven years, and was embalmed and sent to Karbala.
• Husain Nizam Shah I — Person · r. 1553 – 1565 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Succeeded at thirteen with his full brother disputing the title, led the Deccan confederacy that destroyed Vijayanagara at Talikota, and died five months after the victory.
• Murtaza Nizam Shah I — Person · r. 1565 – 1588 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Ferishta’s chapter calls him “Diwana, or, the Madman”: a boy king whose mother governed from behind a curtain, who unseated her at fourteen, took Berar, and was suffocated in a bath-house on his son’s order.
• Miran Husain Nizam Shah — Person · r. 1588 – 1589 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Murdered his father to take the throne, had fifteen princes of the house killed in a day on his minister’s advice, and within the year was deposed by that minister and his head planted on a bastion.
• Ismail Nizam Shah — Person · r. 1589 – 1591 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Fetched from a hill-fort at eleven to be a minister’s king, then a Mahdavi faction’s king, and finally deposed by his own father — the reign that shows what “installation” means.
• Burhan Nizam Shah II — Person · r. 1591 – 1595 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Twice failed to take the throne from his brother, sheltered with Akbar, and then took it from his own son — an old man’s reign of four years that restored the Shia rite and expelled the Mahdavis.
• Ibrahim Nizam Shah — Person · r. 1595, four months · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  The one Ahmadnagar accession Ferishta calls a lineal succession — and a reign of four months, ended by “the intemperance of the King, who is killed, and his army defeated” against Bijapur.
• Ahmad Nizam Shah II, son of Shah Tahir — Person · r. 1595 – 1596, set aside as a pretender · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Brought from Daulatabad “with great pomp” and crowned because a minister preferred him to an infant under Chand Bibi’s regency — and set aside within the year when it “was discovered that Ahmud Shah was not of the Nizam Shahy family”.
• Bahadur Nizam Shah — Person · r. 1596 – 1600; then a prisoner at Gwalior · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  An infant in arms fetched out of a hill-fort by his great-aunt and proclaimed king, whose reign is Chand Bibi’s regency and whose reign ends when the garrison murders her and Akbar’s son storms the fort.
• Murtaza Nizam Shah II — Person · r. 1600 – 1610 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Malik Ambar’s king: “the son of Shah Ally, fills the throne of the Nizam Shahy dynasty. The affairs of the state are conducted by his minister” — Ferishta’s present tense, written while both men lived.
• Burhan Nizam Shah III — Person · r. 1610 – c. 1631 · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  The sultan of Malik Ambar’s last sixteen years and of his son Fath Khan’s first five — killed by Fath Khan “in the name of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan” — and a ruler whose very numbering the sources cannot agree on.
• Husain Nizam Shah III — Person · r. 1632 – 1633; a prisoner at Gwalior thereafter · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  Fath Khan’s king, surrendered with the fortress of Daulatabad in June 1633 and sent north to Gwalior, where the imperial chronicle noticed him only as one of two Nizam Shahi captives already held there.
• Murtaza Nizam Shah III — Person · r. 1633 – 1636, in Shahji’s keeping · Nizam Shahi Dynasty
  A boy of ten or eleven taken out of a hill-fort by Shahji Bhonsle and crowned, and a state run in his name for three years until a treaty between Shah Jahan and Bijapur divided the kingdom and left no throne to sit on.