भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

however, was able and warlike in spirit. Because of his honest and diligent
service, his valour and prudence, that Muslim state managed to exist
somehow between A.D. 1484 and 1526. But some Muslim noblemen, who
were Mohammed Gawan’s enemies at the court, contrived to have him
killed by royal order. It must be remembered that, however great
Mohammed Gawan might be, like practically every other Muslim ruler, he
never left anything undone to persecute the Hindus in the Bahamani
Kingdom. Yet he met his doom, not at the hands of the Hindus, but at those
of his own Muslim colleagues.
886. Even before the death of Mohammed Gawan, the Sultan’s capital had
been shifted to Bidar, and after his death, that feeble Muslim power was
broken up into the following five parts:

1. Adilshahi of Vijapur.
2. Imadshahi of Berar (Varhad or Vidarbha (1484-1503).
3. Kut-b-Shahi of Gowalkonda.
4. Nizamshahi of Ahmednagar (1489 to 1637).
5. Baridshahi of Bidar.
6. Two remarkable things about this break-up of the Bahamani
   Kingdom should well be remembered, especially by the Hindus. The first is
   that the founder of Imadshahi of Berar (second in the above list) was
   originally a Telangi Brahmin. His father lived in Vijaynagar. In one of the
   battles with Vijaynagar, this son of a Telangi Brahmin was captured by the
   Bahamani Muslims, who, true to their wicked custom, converted him to
   Islam. He was, thereafter, raised to a higher status by the kindness of
   Gawan. At last in A.D. 1484, he divorced himself from the Bahamani
   Kingdom and as a Muslim, took for himself the proud title of Imadshah and
   proclaimed himself an independent ruler of the Province of Berar, relegated
   to his charge.
7. The second remarkable fact is that of the foundation of the
   Nizamshahi of Ahmednagar, the fourth fragment of the Bahamani
   Kingdom. At Vijaynagar, there was a Brahmin named Timmappa Bahiru
   (Bhairao?), whose son was taken captive and converted to Islam, when
   Ahmedshah was at war with Viaynagar. He was renamed Ahmed. When
   this convert Ahmed was posted at the command of a big Muslim army, he
   utilized his authority to break loose from the Bahamani domination and
   established his own Sultanate in A.D. 1489. Because of his title of the
   Nizam, his Sultanate came to be known as Nizamshahi. In his domain was