Question

foreign powers who ruled Maharashtra at the beginning of th 17th century
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Answer 1

Answer:

The British ruled for more than a century and brought huge changes in every aspect of life for the people of the Maharashtra region. Areas that correspond to present day Maharashtra were under direct or indirect British rule, first under the East India Company and then, from 1858, under the British crown.

Answer 2

Answer:

Beginning in the early seventeenth century CE, Nizamshah of Ahmadnagar and Adilshah of Bijapur ruled over the majority of Maharashtra's land.

Nizamshah of Ahmadnagar :

1. In the northwest of the Deccan lay the late-medieval Indian kingdom of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate, which was situated between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur.
2. On May 28, 1490, the Bahmani governor of Junnar, Malik Ahmad, declared his country's independence and established the Nizam Shahi dynasty as the ruling power over the sultanate of Ahmednagar.
3. He did this by defeating the Bahmani army under the command of commander Jahangir Khan. The village of Junnar, which featured a fort later given the new name Shivneri, served as his first capital. In 1494, Ahmadnagar, the new capital, had its foundation laid. Aurangzeb, the viceroy of Deccan at the time, finally annexed the sultanate to the Mughal Empire in 1636.

Bijapur's Adilshah:

1. The Adil Shahi or Adilshahi dynasty was founded by Yusuf Adil Shah and ruled the Sultanate of Bijapur from 1489 to 1686.
2. The capital of the Sultanate of Bijapur was located in the modern-day district of Bijapur in the Indian state of Karnataka, which is part of the Deccan region of Southern India.
3. Bijapur had been a province of the Bahmani Sultanate prior to its political collapse in the last quarter of the 15th century and ultimate disintegration in 1518. Bijapur Sultanate, which Emperor Aurangzeb had subdued, was acquired by the Mughal Empire on September 12, 1686.

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