Person · r. 1520 – 1522

Ala al-Din Shah Bahmani

علاء الدین شاہ بہمنی

Placed on the throne by Amir Barid after Ahmad Shah III's death in 1520; deposed after roughly two years and three months when a plot he laid against the minister was discovered, and murdered in confinement.

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The Bahmani Sultanate: The Deccan's First Muslim Kingdom — 15 sources
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vol. II, p. 555 · read as page image Ameer Bereed kept the throne vacant nearly fourteen days after the death of Ahmud Shah, and then, instead of ascending it himself, he deemed it prudent to place the crown on the head of one of the Bahmuny family; accordingly Alla-ood-Deen the Second was selected for that purpose.
vol. II, p. 556 · read as page image The King was deposed, after a short reign of two years and three months, and placed in confinement, in which situation he was shortly after murdered.