By Richard M. Eaton
During this attention-grabbing account of 1 of the least identified elements of South Asia, Richard Eaton recounts the historical past of the Deccan plateau in southern India from the fourteenth century to the increase of eu colonialism. He does so, vividly, throughout the lives of 8 Indians who lived at diverse occasions in this interval, and who every one represented whatever specific in regards to the Deccan. Their tales are woven jointly right into a wealthy narrative tapestry, which illuminates an important social procedures of the Deccan throughout 4 centuries and offers a much-needed booklet via the main very hot pupil within the box.
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The king was now led off to Delhi. But instead of dying on the banks of the Narmada, as we know actually happened, the ex-king reached Delhi and was greeted by the sultan. When the sultan’s mother realized ´ – and her son a manifestation that the captured king was a manifestation of Siva of Vishnu – she advised her son to resolve their differences, whereupon the sultan, now recognizing Pratapa Rudra’s truly superlative qualities, set the captive ex-king free. Returning to Warangal, the king summoned his brave and loyal padmanayakas and, commending them for their loyal service, released them from his service and authorized them to become independent kings in their respective lands.
Around 1600, the Deccan historian Rafi ë al-Din Shirazi related how the other Tughluq successorstate of the Deccan, the Bahmani kingdom, had come into being in 1347. Instrumental in this process, he writes, was Shaikh Siraj al-Din Junaidi, a Muslim holyman who, born in Peshawar in northwest India, had migrated to Daulatabad in 1328 just after that city, as the Tughluq empire’s new co-capital, was swelling with throngs of other transplanted northerners. 34 Later hagiographies of Siraj al-Din went further still, associating this shaikh with the collapse of Kakatiya rule in the Deccan.
See Richard M. Eaton, “Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States,” in Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, ed. David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence (Gainesville FL, 2000), 246–81. 20 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 pratapa rudra ( r. 14 Finally, a governor was appointed, and the city itself was renamed “Sultanpur,” which for the next eight years minted silver, copper, and gold coins in the name of Tughluq sultans. In this way Pratapa Rudra’s former kingdom was extinguished, its lands absorbed into the vast Tughluq empire (see Map 2).