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Regional Divisions
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- Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulk — Person · Bahmani governor of Telangana; d. 1543 · Qutb Shahi Dynasty — from 1518The founder who never called himself king — a Bahmani provincial governor whose title means “slave of the sultan”, murdered at about ninety on the instigation of his own son.
- Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah — Person · r. 1543 – 1550 · Qutb Shahi Dynasty — from 1518Took the throne by having his father murdered and his brother blinded, and lies in the one Qutb Shahi tomb built of no black basalt and carrying no inscription at all.
- Subhan Quli Qutb Shah — Person · r. 1550, aged seven · Qutb Shahi Dynasty — from 1518Put on the throne at seven by the nobles of the court, governed by a regent recalled from exile, and deposed within the year by the uncle he had displaced — called Chhote Malik, the Small Master.
- Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali — Person · r. 1550 – 1580 · Qutb Shahi Dynasty — from 1518Came back from seven years at the Vijayanagara court to depose his seven-year-old nephew, and reigned thirty years — probably the first of the line actually to take the title of Sultan.
- Muhammad Qutb Shah — Person · r. 1612 – 1626 · Qutb Shahi Dynasty — from 1518The sixth sultan, who reached the throne through marriage rather than birth — husband of Hayat Bakshi Begum, and father of the boy whose regency she held.
Women's Contributions
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- Hayat Bakshi Begum — Person · regent from 1626; d. 26 February 1667 · Qutb Shahi Dynasty — from 1518Daughter of one sultan, wife of the next, mother of the third, and regent for her son from 1626 — the only woman in the royal necropolis whose tomb is the size of a king’s.