12.1 Bahmani Kingdom · Part 5

puppet became the fifth one. Among these Bijapur became L a k s h a d w e e p i s l a n d s ( I N D I A ) A n d a m a n a n d n i c o b a r i s l a n d s ( I N D I A ) BAY OF BENGAL ARABIAN SEA I N D I A N O C E A N Map not to scale N S W E Burhanpur Devagiri Berar Ahmadnagar Surat Diu Bidar Gulbarga Bijapur Talikota Raichur Doab Hampi Goa Sringeri Halebid Kanchi Tanjavur Madurai Sri Lanka Calicut Udipi Srirangam Krishna Penukonda Thirupathi Golconda Warangal Godavari Bahmani kingdom Vijayanagar kingdom powerful by annexing Bidar and Berar in course of time. Though Ahmadnagar and Golkonda acted independently they finally joined with Bijapur to fight with their common enemy, Vijayanagar. Vijayanagar was utterly routed in the battle of Talikota or Rakshashi-Tangadi in . Thereafter, within a century, the Sultanates were vanquished one after another and taken over by the Mughal state. XI History - Lesson - - Bahmani and Vijayanagar Kingdoms the Tuluva dynasty ( – ) and the Aravidu dynasty ( – ). The history of this kingdom can be narrated in four stages. In the beginning, the Vijayanagar kingdom was one among many small principalities of the time, under the rule of some local chiefs in different parts of south India. The three big states of the thirteenth century, the Pandyas in Tamil Nadu, the Hoysalas in Karnataka and the Kakatiyas in Andhra had almost been destroyed by the military expeditions of the Delhi Sultanate in the first three decades of the fourteenth century, leaving a big political vacuum. The turbulent political situation provided an opportunity to the five Sangama brothers, headed by Harihara, to consolidate and expand the territory. Besides, the Muslim Sultanate that had been established in Madurai a little earlier and the Bahmani Sultanate that came up in started to rule independently of Delhi. The Delhi Sultanate itself became weak and did not take