Question

List the achievement of Mahumad Gawan as Prime Minister of Bahamani kingdom.

Answer 1

Mahmud Gawan (1411, Iran - 1481) was a Prime Minister in the Bahamani Sultanate of Deccan. Khwaja Mahmud Gilani, from the village of Gawan in Persia, was well-versed in Islamic theology, Persian language and Mathematics and was a poet and a prose writer of repute. Later, he became a minister in the court of Muhammad III (1463-1482). A storehouse of wisdom, Mahmud enjoyed the trust and confidence of rulers, locals as well as that of foreign kingdoms, who had great respect for Mahmud.

Mahmud Gawan

His characteristics are as follows: competent and successful general, capable administrator, learned man, patron of art and poetry