Krishnadevaraya's Bahmani expedition
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Krishnadevaraya Timmarusu |
Mahmood Shah Bahmani II (WIA) Yusuf Adil Shah † Amir Barid I[1] Malik Ahmed Bahri Nuri Khan Khwaja-i-jahan Adil Khan Qutb-ul-Mulk Dastur-i-Mamalik Mirza Latf-ul-tab[2] | ||||||||
Krishnadevaraya's Bahmani expedition (1509-1512) was a military campaign between the Bahmani Sultanate and the Vijayanagara Empire in the Deccan region of India.
Background
In 1509, Bahmani nobles gathered in Bidar and joined Mahmud Shah II, who declared a jihad against the Vijayanagara Empire. Krishnadevaraya, the emperor of Vijayanagara, responded with forces of his own.[1]
Campaign
Battle of Diwani
The Muslim armies were halted at the unidentified town of Diwani[3], where the sultan Mahmud Shah II was wounded in the ensuing battle.[2] The sultan's nobles retreated to Kovilkonda.[1]
Battle of Kovilkonda
Krishnadevaraya pursued the withdrawing Bahmani and Bijapuri forces and brought them to battle near Kovilkonda, resulting in a decisive vistory and the death of Yusuf Adil Khan.[4][3][1]
Battle near the Krishna River (1512)
In 1512, Krishnadevaraya marched towards the Krishna river along with 30,000 cavalry and 300,000 infantry. Forces from Golconda Sultanate marched to meet him, joined by others from Bijapur and Ahmadnagar. In the ensuring battle Kamma chief, Rāmalinga Naidu led an attack on the enemy camp with threw them into disarray. Krishnadevaraya pressed the advantage and the opposing forces were nearly annhilated, with the exception of some who escaped across the river.[5]
Aftermath
Following the campaign, Krishnadevaraya established the newly-subjugated territories as a new province governed from Seringapatam, and then returned to his capital.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Majumdar, R.C (1967). History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 06, The Delhi Sultanate. Public Resource. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. pp. 309–310.
- 1 2 Sarma, P. Sree Rama (1992), A History of Vijayanagar Empire, Prabhakar Publications, p. 79: "The Bahmani army headed by Mahmood Shah II marched out off Bidar. It was accompanied by Malik Ahmed Bahri, Nuri Khan, Khwaja-i-jahan, the Adil Khan, Qutb-ul-Mulk, Dastur-i-Mamalik, Mirza Latf-ul-tab and others. The progress of Bahmani troops was checked by Vijayanagara troops at Diwani, which place tremains unidentified."
- 1 2 Stoker, Valerie (30 September 2016). Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court. Univ of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-96546-1.
- ↑ Eaton, Richard M. (2005), A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives, Cambridge University Press, p. 88, ISBN 978-0-521-25484-7: "The string began in 1509, when at Koilkonda, sixty miles southwest of Hyderabad, Krishna Raya defeated the last remnant of Bahmani power, Sultan Mahmud, along with Yusuf Adil Shah of Bijapur, who was killed in the engagement."
- ↑ Sharma, M.h. Rama (1917). The History Of The Vijayanagara Empire. POPULAR PRAKASHAN BOMBAY. p. 121.