Author: J D B Gribble
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 680
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171679455
Description
Anecdotal in character, supplemented by delightful sketches and photographs, the History of the Deccan is an interesting as well as informative read.
The Deccan, historically, is that portion of Southern India which is bounded by the Godavari and the Vindhya mountains on the north and the Krishna and Tungabhadra to the south. Apart from inscriptions and architectural remains, there were practically no authentic records of its history till the end of the thirteenth century, when the Delhi Sultans made their presence felt here.
An independent Mughal kingdom was established in the Deccan, which lasted for more than three hundred years, a period full of the most interesting and romantic episodes. The present volume was an attempt to write a connected history of the Deccan, piecing together scattered references in existing histories, in some cases relying on the author’s close study of the subject.
The work can be read in two parts, the opulence of the Mughal kingdom of the first giving way to the political fortunes of the French and the British in Hyderabad in the next.
Contents
VOLUME - I
PREFACE
1.Introductory
2.The origin of the Bahmanee Kings of Gulbarga
3.TheRise of the Hindoo Kingdom of Vijayanagar, and the End of the First Gulbarga Sultan
4.The Gulbarga Sultans - Muhammaed Shah
5.The Gulbarga Sultans from 1374-1397 AD
6.Sultans Ghazi-ud-din and Shams-ud-din
7.The City and the Kingdom of Vijayanagar
8.Sultans Feroze Shah and Ahmed Shah
9.Sultan Aallah-ud-din
10.Humayun the Cruel
11.Sultans Nizam shah and Muhammed Shah
12.The End of the House of Bahmanee
PART II
HISTORY OF BIJAPUR AND OF THE DECCAN DOWN TO ITS SUBJUGATION BY AURANGZEBE (AD 1500-1680)
13.Yusuf Adil Shah of Bijapur
14.The Nizam shahs of Ahmednagar
15.Bijapur from 1509-1534. Ismael Adil Shah
16.Kindoms of Berar and Golconda and Continuation of Bijapur
17.The Fall of Vijayanagar
18.Ahmednagar and Bijapur from the fall of Vijayanagar till the Death of Ali Adil Shah (1580)
19.The Story of queen Chand and the fall of Ahmednagar
20.Restrospective Sketch of the Deccan
21.The Story of Malick Amber
22.The Beginning of the End
23.End of Bijapur
24.The Fall of Golconda-AD 1686
PART II
AN EMPIRE IN RUINS
25.The King-Makers
26.The End of kng-Makers and the Birth of a New Kingdom
APPENDIX
VOLUME - II
PREFACE
1.The Reign of Asaf-Jah, 1723-1748
2.Asaf Jah’s Successor
3.The French in Hyderabad
4.Bussy in the Deccan and the Decline of French Influence
5.The Rise of British Influence in Hyderabad
6.The British Resident and the First Mysore War
7.The Nizam and the Mahrattas
8.Disbandment of Raymond’s Contingent
9.The Mysore War
10.The Mahratta Kingom
11.The Hyderabad Contingent and the Pindari War
12.The Hyderabad Contingent and William Palmer and Co.
13.Ministry of Maharajah Chandoo Lal(continued) Period - 1825-1845
14.Period - 1825-1845
15.Period -1845-1850
16.Period - 1851-1852
17.The Berar Trust
18.Death of Siraj-ul-Mulk Period 1853-58
19.Reforms Instituted by Sir Salar Jung
APPENDIX