Question

Which practices restricted the freedom of women in the bahmani kingdom?

Answer 1

Answer:

• Both these kingdoms arose when the control of the Sultanate over the Deccan became weak during the reign of Muhammad- bin-Tughlaq. Both were founded by officers who had rebelled against the Sultanate.

• By the 15th and early 16th centuries, the Sultanate in the north had given way to a series of regional kingdoms viz, Gujarat, Malwa, Jaunpur, Delhi itself and Bengal. More-over in the Deccan and peninsular India. the Sultanate incursions had overturned existing regimes, opening the way for new kingdoms to emerge.

• Shortly after Muhammad bin Tughluq, whose efforts to expand South were more intensive, withdrew from the capital he had established at Daulatabad in the Deccan. the Bahmanid kingdom also dominated by Muslims, was established in 1345.

• After roughly a century and a half. the Bahmani kingdom, like the Sultanate, gave way to more localised powers across the Deccan, and these kingdoms— Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, and Golconda—persisted as Muslim dynasties from the late 15th century well into the Mughal era.

• Zafar Khan. also known as Bahman Shah became the founder of an important dynasty in 1345, which ruled the Deccan for nearly two centuries. He made Gulbarga his capital instead of Daulatabad.

• He had to fight various remnants of Muhammad Tughlaqs troops as well as the Hindu rulers of Orissa and Warangal who had also expanded their spheres of influence as soon as Muhammad had left the Deccan.