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Sultanate of Golconda, the Glossary

The Sultanate of Golconda (Persian:; Urdu) was an early modern kingdom in southern India, ruled by the Persianate Shia Islamic Qutb Shahi dynasty of Turkoman origin.^[1]

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16th-century establishments in India
Deccan sultanates
States and territories disestablished in 1687
States and territories established in 1518

Abdullah Qutb Shah

Abdullah Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the seventh ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.

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Abul Hasan Qutb Shah

Abul Hasan Qutb Shah, also known as Abul Hasan Tana Shah was the eighth and last ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, sovereign of the Kingdom of Golconda in South India.

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The Sultanate of Ahmednagar or the Nizam Shahi Sultanate was a late medieval Indian Muslim kingdom located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur, ruled by the Nizam Shahi or Bahri dynasty. Sultanate of Golconda and Ahmadnagar Sultanate are Deccan sultanates and former sultanates.

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Alvand Mirza (Qara Qoyunlu)

Alvand Mirza was a member of the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty, the son of Iskandar Kara, the ruler of Mosul, Diyarbakir, and Asadabad.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.

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Annemarie Schimmel

Annemarie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam, especially Sufism.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Aurangzeb

Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as italics, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.

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Bahmani Sultanate

The Bahmani Sultanate (سلطان‌نشین بهمنی) was a late medieval empire that ruled the Deccan Plateau in India. Sultanate of Golconda and Bahmani Sultanate are former sultanates.

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Battle of Talikota

The Battle of Talikota, also known as that of Rakkasagi–Tangadagi (23 January 1565), was a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and an alliance of the Deccan sultanates.

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Char Kaman

Char Kaman (literally "meaning four gates") are four historical structures in Hyderabad, India.

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Charminar

The Charminar is a monument located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

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Daulatabad Fort

Daulatabad Fort originally Deogiri Fort, is a historic fortified citadel located in Daulatabad village near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

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Deccan Plateau

The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada River.

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Deccan sultanates

The Deccan sultanates is a historiographical term referring to five late medieval to early modern Indian kingdoms on the Deccan Plateau between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range that were created from the disintegration of the Bahmani Sultanate and ruled by Muslim dynasties: namely Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda. Sultanate of Golconda and Deccan sultanates are former sultanates and history of Telangana.

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Deccani language

Deccani (dakanī or, dakhanī; also known as Deccani Urdu or Deccani Hindi) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Deccan region of south-central India and the native language of the Deccani people. The historical form of Deccani sparked the development of Urdu literature during the late-Mughal period. Sultanate of Golconda and Deccani language are Deccan sultanates.

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Deccanis

The Deccanis or Deccani people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-religious community of Deccani-speaking Muslims who inhabit or are from the Deccan region of Western and Southern India. Sultanate of Golconda and Deccanis are Deccan sultanates.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Diwali

Diwali (Deepavali, IAST: Dīpāvalī) is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions.

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Dynasty

A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,Oxford English Dictionary, "dynasty, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Godavari River

The Godavari (ɡod̪aːʋəɾiː) is India's second longest river after the Ganga River and drains the third largest basin in India, covering about 10% of India's total geographical area. Its source is in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for, draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4.5%), Chhattisgarh (10.9%) and Odisha (5.7%).

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Golconda

Golconda is a fortified citadel and ruined city located in the western outskirts of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Sultanate of Golconda and Golconda are history of Telangana.

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Golconda diamonds

Golconda diamonds are mined in the Godavari-Krishna delta region of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Guntur district

Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Hamadan province

Hamadan Province (استان همدان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Hayat Bakshi Begum

Hayat Bakshi Begum (died 26 February, 1667) was the royal consort of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah, the sixth ruler of the Qutb Shai Dynasty in south India and daughter of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, fifth Sultan of the dynasty.

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Hayat Bakshi Mosque

Hayat Bakshi Mosque also Hayat Bakshi Begum Masjid is a mosque located in Hayathnagar, near Hyderabad, India.

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Holi

Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring.

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Hyderabad

Hyderabad (ISO) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana.

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Hyderabad State

Hyderabad State or Hyderabad Deccan was a kingdom, country, and princely state in the Deccan with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. Sultanate of Golconda and Hyderabad State are empires and kingdoms of India and history of Telangana.

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Hyderabad Subah

Hyderabad Subah, also known as Golconda Subah, was a province of the Mughal Empire encompassing the eastern Deccan region of the Indian subcontinent. Sultanate of Golconda and Hyderabad Subah are history of Telangana.

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Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali

Ibrahim Qutb Shah Wali (1518 – 5 June 1580), also known by his Telugu names Malki BhaRama and Ibharama Chakravarti, was the fourth monarch of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indo-Islamic architecture

Indo-Islamic architecture is the architecture of the Indian subcontinent produced by and for Islamic patrons and purposes.

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Indology

Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies.

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Iskandar (Qara Qoyunlu)

Qara Iskandar (italic) ruled the Qara Qoyunlu or Black Sheep Turcoman tribe from 1420 to 1436.

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Jahan Shah

Muzaffar al-Din Jahan Shah ibn Yusuf (جهان شاه; Cahanşah جهان شاه; 1397 in Khoy or 1405 in Mardin – 30 October or 11 November 1467 in Bingöl) was the leader of the Qara Qoyunlu Oghuz Turkic tribal confederacy in Azerbaijan and Arran who reigned c. 1438 – 1467.

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Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah

Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the second ruler of the Sultanate of Golkonda under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.

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Kamma (caste)

Kamma is a largely Hindu caste from South India.

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Kapu (caste)

Kapu is a Hindu caste mainly found in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Khairatabad Mosque

Khairatabad Mosque is in Khairatabad.

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Kollur Mine

Kollur Mine was a series of gravel-clay pits on the south bank of the Krishna River in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Krishna district

Krishna district is a district in the coastal Andhra Region in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, with Machilipatnam as its administrative headquarters.

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Machilipatnam

Machilipatnam, also known as Masulipatnam and Bandar, is a city in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Madanna and Akkanna

Madanna and Akkanna were two Brahmin brothers who rose to prominence in the 17th-century in the final two decades of the Golkonda sultanate.

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Mahmood Shah Bahmani II

Mahmood Shah or Shihab-Ud-Din Mahmud was the sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate from 1482 until his death in 1518.

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Makkah Masjid, Hyderabad

Makkah Masjid or Mecca Masjid, is a congregational mosque in Hyderabad, India.

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Mirza Yusuf

Mirza Yusuf (میرزا یوسف; Mirzə Yusif) died 22October 1469) was the last sultan of the Qara Qoyunlu, also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, to have significant authority.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. Sultanate of Golconda and Mughal Empire are empires and kingdoms of India.

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Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (4 April 156511 January 1612) was the fifth sultan of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golkonda and founded the city of Hyderabad, in South-central India and built its architectural centerpiece, the Charminar.

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Odisha

Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.

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Pargana

Pargana or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each parganas may or may not be subdivided into pirs.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Persianate society

A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity.

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Qara Qoyunlu

The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (Qaraqoyunlular,; قره قویونلو), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a culturally Persianate, Muslim Turkoman "Kara Koyunlu, also spelled Qara Qoyunlu, Turkish Karakoyunlular, English Black Sheep, Turkmen tribal federation that ruled Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468." "Better known as Turkomans...

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Qara Yusuf

Abu Nasr Qara Yusuf ibn Mohammad Barani (Qara Yusif قارا یوسف; c. 1356 – 1420) was the ruler of the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty (or "Black Sheep Turkomans") from c.1388 to 1420, although his reign was interrupted by Tamerlane's invasion (1400–1405).

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Quli Qutb Shah

Sultan Quli Qutb-ul-Mulk, more often though less correctly referred to in English as Quli Qutb Shah (1485–1543), was the founder of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, which ruled the Sultanate of Golconda in southern India from 1518 to 1687.

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Qutb Shahi tombs

The Qutub Shahi Tombs are located in the Ibrahim Bagh (garden precinct), close to the famous Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India.

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Raju

The Raju are a Telugu caste found mostly in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Rama Navami

Rama Navami is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Rama, one of the most popularly revered deities in Hinduism, also known as the seventh avatar of Vishnu.

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Ratirahasya

The Ratirahasya (Sanskrit रतिरहस्य.) (translated in English as Secrets of Love, also known as the Koka Shastra) is a medieval Indian sex manual written by Kokkoka, a poet, who is variously described as Koka or Koka Pandit.

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Sarkar (administrative division)

Sarkar (सरकार, سركار, ਸਰਕਾਰ, সরকার also spelt Circar) is a historical administrative division, used mostly in the Mughal Empire.

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Shah Jahan

Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Sita Ramachandraswamy Temple, Bhadrachalam

The Sri Sita Ramachandraswamy temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Rama, a prominent avatar of the god Vishnu.

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South India

South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.

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Subhan Quli Qutb Shah

Subhan Quli Qutb Shah (1543–1550) was 7 years old, when he became Sultan of Golconda, after the death of his father Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah, in 1550.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah

Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the sixth ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India under the Qutb Shahi dynasty.

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Sultanate of Bijapur

The Sultanate of Bijapur was an early modern kingdom in the western Deccan and South India, ruled by the Adil Shahi or Adilshahi dynasty. Sultanate of Golconda and Sultanate of Bijapur are Deccan sultanates and former sultanates.

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Sultanate of Golconda

The Sultanate of Golconda (Persian:; Urdu) was an early modern kingdom in southern India, ruled by the Persianate Shia Islamic Qutb Shahi dynasty of Turkoman origin. Sultanate of Golconda and Sultanate of Golconda are 16th-century establishments in India, Deccan sultanates, empires and kingdoms of India, former countries in South Asia, former sultanates, history of Telangana, states and territories disestablished in 1687 and states and territories established in 1518.

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Taramati Baradari

Taramati Baradari is a historical sarai as part of Ibrahim Bagh, a Persian style garden built during the reign of Ibrahim Quli Qutub Shah, the fourth Sultan of Golconda.

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Telangana

Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.

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Telugu language

Telugu (తెలుగు|) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.

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Toli Masjid

Toli Masjid, also known as Damri Masjid, is a mosque in Hyderabad, in the Indian state of Telangana.

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Turkoman (ethnonym)

Turkoman, also known as Turcoman, was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.

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Velama

Velama is an upper caste found mainly in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Golconda

Also known as Golconda Sultanate, Golkonda Sultanate, Kingdom of Golconda, Kingdom of Golkonda, Kutubshah, Nawab of Golkonda, Qutb Shahi, Qutb Shahi Dynasty, Qutb Shahis, Qutbshahi, Qutbshahi dynasty, Qutub Shahi, Qutub Shahi dynasty, Qutub Shahis, Qutubshah, Qutubshahi, Qutubshahi dynasty, Sultanate of Golkonda.

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16th-century establishments in India

Deccan sultanates

States and territories disestablished in 1687

States and territories established in 1518

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