Golconda Sultanate

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The Golconda Sultanate was an early modern sultanate located in the southeastern Deccan, ruled by the Qutb Shahi dynasty. One of the five Deccan sultanates, it was established in 1518 by Quli Qutb Shah, a Shi'a Muslim of Turkoman origin. The sultanate covered parts of the modern-day Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and some parts of Odisha, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Golconda Sultanate was constantly in conflict with Bijapur and Ahmadnagar, which it shared borders with in the 17th century to the west and northwest. In 1636, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan forced the Qutb Shahis to recognise Mughal suzerainty and pay periodic tributes. The dynasty came to an end in 1687, during the reign of its seventh sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah, when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb arrested and jailed Abul Hasan for the rest of his life in Daulatabad, incorporating Golconda into the Mughal empire. The Qutb Shahis were patrons of Persianate Shi'a culture. The official and court language of the Golconda...

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