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	Adil Shahi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Adil Shahis were originally provincial rulers of the Bahmani Sultanate, but with the breakup of the Bahmani state after 1518, Ismail Adil Shah established an independent sultanate, one of the five Deccan sultanates that were the successors to the Bahmani Sultanate.
		Yusuf Adil Shah was the son of Murad II, the Ottoman Emperor.
		Ismail Adil Shah thus became the king of Bijapur, which till then was a province of Bahamani kingdom.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adil_Shahi (909 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nadir Shah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1729 Tahmasp II was proclaimed as shah in Isfahan.
		Shah Jahan seated on the Peacock Throne The Peacock Throne also know as takhte taoos was made for the Mughal Shah Jahan in the 17th century and taken from Delhi by Nadir Shah of Persia during his invasion of the Mughal Empire in 1739.
		During Nadir Shah's brief reign a 40,000-man army was created, and the boundaries of his empire extended to the greatest in Iran since the days of the Sassanids.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nadir-Shah (3406 words)

	The Reign of Shah Jahan, 1628-1658
		The expenditures resulting from Shah Jahan's failed attempts at frontier expansion, as well as his insatiable appetite for new and grand architecture, were appreciable factors in the empire's eventual financial crisis.
		From Shah Jahan to the end of the Mughal line the famous Red Fort was heart of the empire and the principal residence of the emperors.
		Shah Jahan returned north to concentrate on his new capital at Shahjahanabad, while his son, the young prince Aurangzeb, was appointed viceroy and commander-in-chief of Mughal forces in the Deccan.
	www.islamicart.com /library/empires/india/shahjahan.html (1561 words)

	Shah Jahan - The Emperor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shah Jahan ascended the throne in 1628 and assumed the title of Abul Muzaffar Shahbuddin Muhammad Sahib-i Kiran-i Sani.
		Abdullah Qutb Shah of Golconda formally recognized the suzerainty of Shah Jahan but the king of Bijapur was not ready to barter away his independence.
		Undoubtedly, Shah Jahan was one of the greatest rulers of the Mughals.
	www.indhistory.com /shah-jahan.html (608 words)

	Shah Tahir Hussain Dakkani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shah Tahir went to Bijapur from Goa, where he was ignored by Ismail Adil Shah (915-941/1510-1534), the ruler of Bijapur.
		Shah Tahir had four sons and three daughters, in which Shah Hyder was an elder being born in Iran, and rest in India, namely Shah Rafiuddin, Shah Abul Hasan and Shah Abu Talib.
		Shah Tahir's brother Shah Jafar was also persecuted violently by the Safavids in Iran, who also came in India and attached with the administration of the state.
	ismaili.net /histoire/history07/history728.html (1297 words)

	Gol Gumbaz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tomb, located in the city of Bijapur, southern India, was built in 1659 by the famous architect, Yaqut of Dabul.
		In the centre of the podium are the tombs of Muhammad Adil Shah II and his relations.
		To the west of the podium in a large apse-like projection is the mosque, also raised slightly above the floor level of the chamber.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gol_Gumbaz (198 words)

	Adil Shah Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yusuf Adil Shah was the son of Murad II, the Sultan of Turkey.
		Ibrahim Adil Shah I who succeeded his father Ismail fortified the city and built the old Jami Masjid.
		Ali Adil Shah I who next ascended the throne, aligned his forces with other Muslim kings of Deccan and together, they brought down the Vijayanagar empire.
	www.indhistory.com /adil-shah-dynasty.html (522 words)

	Tour India - Forts in India
		Shah Jehan who succeeded Jahangir destroyed some of Akbar 's simple sandstone buildings to build a cluster of rich building with inlaid marble palace rooms along the river front(1628 -37).
		Shah Jahan's beautiful marble Moti Masjid (known as the Pearl Mosque) is an example of perfect proportion.
		Sultan Quli Qutab Shah (1512-43), the first of seven Qutab Shahi rulers, and his two successors, the brothers Jamshed Quli built the fort which was lost to Emperor Aurangzeb after his long siege of 1687.
	www.info2india.com /forts.htm (3674 words)

	Encyclopedia: Adil Shahi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Adil Shahis were originally provincial rulers of the The Bahmani Sultanate was a Muslim state of the Deccan in southern India.
		1518, Ismail Adil Shah established an independent sultanate, one of the five The Deccan sultanates were five Muslim-ruled kingdoms–-Bijapur, Golconda, Ahmednagar, Bidar, and Berar of south-central India.
		1619 the Adil Shahis conquered the neighboring sultanate of Bidar is a city in Karnataka state, India.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Adil-Shahi (1116 words)

	Nadir Shah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in the Dastgerd region of Khorasan, a province of Iran.
		Nadir returned home with vast treasures, including the Peacock Throne, which thereafter served as a symbol of Persian imperial might, and, among a trove of other fabulous jewels, the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond.
		After his death, he was succedded by his nephew Adil Shah ("righteous king") who was deposed within a year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nadir_Shah (946 words)

	GOA - LoveToKnow Article on GOA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Political History.With the subdivision of the Bahmani kingdom, after 1482, Goa passed into the power of Yusuf Adil Shah, king of Bijapur, who was its ruler when the Portuguese first reached India.
		As a Hindu ascetic had foretold its downfall and the garrison of Ottoman mercenaries was outnumbered, the city surrendered without a struggle, and Albuquerque entered it in triumph, while the Hindu townsfolk strewed filagree flowers of gold and silver before his feet.
		Three months later Yusuf Adil Shah returned with 6o,ooo troops, forced the passage of tl~e ford, and blockaded the Portuguese in their ships from May to August, when the cessation of the monsoon enabled them to put to sea.
	72.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GOA.htm (3179 words)

	Articles - Afsharid dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The dynasty was born with Nadir Shah, who proclaimed himself the Shah of Iran in 1736.
		There was in essence a three-sided struggle between the descendants of Nader Shah, the Zand dynasty and the Qajars.
		For much of the time, Shahrokh, grandson both of Nader and Shah Hossein, remained nominally on the throne at Mashad, but, blinded and intermittently imprisoned, he exercised no effective power.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Afsharid_dynasty (213 words)

	Gol Gumbaz: Mausoleum of Muhammad 'Adil Shah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Gol (Round) Gumbaz (Dome) is the mausoleum of Muhammad Adil Shah (r.
		1627-1656) of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur.
		In the center of the tomb chamber is a platform with the cenotaphs of Muhammad Adil, his youngest wife Arus Bibi, his favorite daughter and a grandson.
	www.archnet.org /library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=7616 (891 words)

	Gol Gumbaz, Gol Gumbaz India, Indian Monuments, Travel to Gol Gumbaz, Gol Gumbaz Tour: A Majestic Mausoleum
		The Adil Shahi rulers were great patrons of art and architecture and built a number of monuments in Bijapur, which was their capital.
		This gallery around the base of the dome formed a highly sensitive echo alcove and the faintest sound in it echoes across 135 feet, resonating ten times and thus one pair of feet is enough to awaken the echoes of the tread of a regiment.
		At the center of the vast space, on a raised platform are the cenotaphs of Muhammad Adil Shah, his two wives, mistress, daughter and grandson—their interred bodies placed in a crypt below accessible by a flight of stairs under the western doorway.
	www.indianvisit.com /monuments-india/gol-gumbaz.htm (978 words)

	Bijapur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Literary meaning, 'round', it is the tomb of Mohammed Adil Shah (1627 -56), the seventh ruler of Adilshahi dynasty.
		The tomb, evidently executed under the orders of Ibrahim Adil Shah (1580-1627) is noted for its striking symmetry of proportion, exquisite minarets cupolas, parapets and cornices and is supposed to have been an inspiration for the Taj Mahal at Agra.
		This mansion was constructed by Ali Adil Shah I in 1561.
	www.bijapur.net /sightseeing.htm (1276 words)

	Nadir Shah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shah Tahmasb II's victories were achieved by his general Nadir Khouli (1736-1747), and when he attempted to lead an army himself against the Turks he lost large tracts of land to them within a month.
		Nadir Shah is thought to be responsible for commissioning the large paintings which hang on the Western wall of the palace of
		Shah Rukh was put on the throne, deposed, blinded, reinstated deposed and reinstated again.
	isfahan.apu.ac.uk /glossary/hista.htm (437 words)

	Gol Gumbaz monument, Bahmani kingdom, Bijapur Architecture, Famous Monuments of India.
		Gol Gumbaj, literally means the round dome, is the tomb of Mohammed Adil Shah (1627-56 AD), the 7th ruler of this dynasty.
		It is said to have fallen during Muhammad Adil's reign and is believed to guard the tomb from lighting.
		The cenotaphs of the Mohammad Adil, his two wives, his mistress Rambha, his daughter and grandson are in the center of the tomb.
	www.indiaprofile.com /monuments-temples/golgumbaz.htm (907 words)

	Hemu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The son of a grocer, he would rise to become a general under the command of Adil Shah Suri of the Suri Dynasty.
		Hemu would defect from the Suris to take up command under Muhammad Shah Abdali, who was the Sultan of Bengal.
		Hemu was given the position of Prime Minister in Bengal after this defection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hemu (209 words)

	Adil Shah - rFind.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Adil Shah, indisk stormogul med afghanskt pÃ¥brÃ¥; regerade 1554-1555.
		Shah StartsidaSenaste nyttLänkspegelInställningarShah var titeln på monarken i Persien och Iran fram till statsvälvningen på 1980-talet.
		Adil Kaouch från Marocko tog silvret, tolv hundradelar bakom.
	www.rfind.net /info/Adil_Shah (247 words)

	Tenali Ramalinga, Tenali Ramakrishna Kavi
		During the pleasant rounds of discussions, Adil Shah urged the scholars and poets from the Rayalu band to recite some sequences from the epic Mahabharat.
		Adil Shah expressed his wish and requested Rayalu to make his men rewrite the Mahabharat portraying him and his friends as Pandavas and his rivals as Kauravas.
		Adil Shah thought that there should really be some problem and consented for the one-on-one meeting with Ramalinga in a separate room.
	tenaliramalinga.com /tenali-ramakrishna-kavi-4.html (835 words)

	Sher Shah Suri and early Mughal period
		Islam Shah's twelve year old son Firuz Shah succeeded him, but within days was assasinated by Sher Shah's nephew muh.ammad mubâriz khân who ruled as Muhammad Shah Adil.
		He started fighting against Arakan and won Jaunpur, but Muhammad Shah Adil's hindu general Hemu defeated and killed him in 1555; and Muhammad Shah Adil appointed Shahbaj Khan as ruler of Bengal.
		His son, Jalal al-din Muhammad Akbar (1556–1605, very tolerant of various religions), initially with Biram Khan as a regent, defeated Muhammad Shah Adil on the 5th of November 1556.
	tanmoy.tripod.com /bengal/sher.html (500 words)

	Makemytrip
		It houses the tomb of Ibrahim Adil Shah II.
		There is a huge tank near the Rauza called Taj Bauri built by Ibrahim II in remembrance of his wife.
		Shah who was buried here with his wife, daughter and favorite court dancer.
	stage2.makemytrip.com /destination/bijapur/bijapur1.htm (365 words)

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		The prominent Maratha families mentioned above were serving under the Nizam Shah of Ahmednagar and Adil Shah of Bijapur.
		These families are generally referred as the 96 clans or kulis which comprise of 96 different main clans with their different sub clans.
		His son, Shahaji (1599-1664) served under Nizam Shah and Adil Shah, and came to prominence as a leading General.
	www.maratha.net (1071 words)

	AFGHANISTAN: A view from the left
		Adil described the opposition Northern Alliance as a coalition of forces.
		Adil said that his party would support an interim regime headed by Zahir Shah, the 86-year-old ex-king.
		According to Adil, Zahir Shah seems to have the support of all the parties in Afghanistan apart from the Taliban.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2001/466/466p22.htm (904 words)

	1Up India > Indian Monuments > Monuments in India > Bijapur, Karnataka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The beautiful Ibrahim Roza was constructed at the height of Bijapur's prosperity by Ibrahim Adil Shah II (1580-1626) for his queen.
		Buried here are Ibrahim Adil Shah, his queen, Taj Sultana, his daughter, two sons, and his mother Haji Badi Sahiba.
		This monument was built by Ali Adil Shah I around 1561 to serve the dual purpose of a royal residence and a Durbar Hall.
	www.1upindia.com /monuments/bijapur.html (591 words)

	Cloudband : Magazine : Reviews : ARCHITECTURE AND ART OF THE DECCAN SULTANATES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For example, the Gol Gumbad, the 17th-century tomb of the Bijapur ruler Muhammad Adil Shah, sports a dome so large that it is said to be eclipsed in size only by that of Saint Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
		Although the amount of art from the Deccan pales in comparison with the abundance of architecture, painting, and luxurious goods from the celebrated North Indian Mughal dynasty, the works that do survive often equal or even surpass their more celebrated rivals examples in terms of fineness.
		For example, the 17th century tile mosaics on the interior walls of the Badshahi Ashurkhana, a structure built by the Qutb Shah sultans to store the Shia alams, are unparalleled in their vibrant colours and intricate designs.
	www.cloudband.com /magazine/articles/rev_hutton_architecture_1199.html (649 words)

	Bijapur Travel, Tour Packages, Tours, Hotels, Holidays Or Vacation In Bijapur
		Also dating back to the period of Adil Shah this is the largest Masjid in the region.
		Ibrahim Roza, the mausoleum of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, is said to have inspired the Taj Mahal in Agra.
		At the centre of the town are large arches signifying the forts and its beauty in moonlight.
	www.makemytrip.com /destination/bijapur/bijapur1.htm (429 words)

	Chapter IDALCAN <i>to</i> IMPALE of I by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The title by which the Portuguese distinguished the kings of the Mahommedan dynasty of Bijapur which rose at the end of the 15th century on the dissolution of the Bahmani kingdom of the Deccan.
		These names represented ’Adil Khan, the title of the founder before he became king, more generally called by the Portuguese the Sabaio (q.v.), and ’Adil Shah, the distinctive style of all the kings of the dynasty.
		The settled rule among them was, that if a foreign army entered their country, they united their forces and fought, notwithstanding the dissensions and quarrels they had among themselves.
	www.bibliomania.org /2/3/260/1276/20042/1.html (648 words)

	Panaji History, Panajim History, Panaji India, Panaji Travel
		According to one Portuguese philologist, the word Pongy is derived from Panch Yma Afsumgary or five wonderful castles where the Muslim king, Ismail Adil Shah, and his wives used to live.
		The only conspicuous construction existing in the locality was the 15th century castle built by Adil Shah on the left margin of the Mandovi River.
		For this purpose, the old castle of Adil Shah was totally remodeled and a palace was built where, at present, the Government Secretariat stands.
	www.goahub.com /goa/introduction/panji/history_legends.html (456 words)

	Goa Churches and Temples, Museum of Christian Art, Palace of the Viceroys, Adil Shah Palace, Rivona and Aguem in south ...
		Goa Churches and Temples, Museum of Christian Art, Palace of the Viceroys, Adil Shah Palace, Rivona and Aguem in south Goa, Chandrapur, Menezes Branganca-Braganca, Gopakapattam, Velha Goa, Cabo de Rama.
		The Museum of Christian Art, very recently inaugurated in the beginning of 1994, is a joint effort of several organizations to conserve the rich heritage of Goa.
		And in Panaji itself, is the Adil Shah Palace, which houses the Goa Government secretariat.
	www.indiaprofile.com /heritage/goa.htm (542 words)

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