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{{Infobox former subdivision
|native_name = वऱ्हाड
|conventional_long_name =Imad Shahi dynasty <br> Berar Sultanate
|common_name =Berar
|nation = the [[Deccan sultanates|Deccan]]
|subdivision = [[Sultanate]]
|era =
|year_start = 1490
|date_start =
|event_start= Deccan sultanate established
|year_end = 1572
|date_end =
|event_end= Conquered by [[Ahmednagar Sultanate]]
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|p1 =Bahmani Sultanate
|s1 =Ahmadnagar Sultanate
|flag_p1 =
|flag_s1 =
|image_flag =
|image_coat =
|image_map =Gawilgarh Fort - C.SHELARE (5).jpg
|image_map_caption =[[Gavilgad]] Fort, built by [[Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk]] of Berar (1490 – 1504)
| capital = [[Ellichpur]]
|stat_area1 =29340
|stat_year1 =
|stat_pop1 =
|footnotes = {{EB1911|wstitle=Berar}}
| today = [[India]]
|demonym=}}
'''Berar''' was one of the [[Deccan sultanates]]. It was established in 1490 following the disintegration of the [[Bahmani Sultanate]].<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |pages=117–119}}</ref>

==History==

===Background===
The origin of the name Berar or Warhad (वऱ्हाड) as it is spelled in Marathi, is not known. The first authentic records show it to have been part of the Andhra or [[Satavahana]] empire. On the fall of the [[Chalukya]]s in the 12th century, Berar came under the sway of the [[Yadavas of Deogiri]], and remained in their possession until the [[Muslim]] invasions at the end of the 13th century.
On the establishment of the [[Bahmani Sultanate]] in the Deccan (1348), Berar was constituted one of the five provinces into which their kingdom was divided, being governed by great nobles, with a separate army. The perils of this system became apparent when the province was divided (1478 or 1479) into two separate provinces, named after their capitals [[Gawilghur|Gawil]] and [[Mahur, Maharashtra|Mahur]]. The Bahmani dynasty was, however, already tottering to its fall.

===Establishment of the Berar Sultanate===
During the disintegration of Bahmani sultanate, in 1490 [[Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk]], governor of [[Gawilghur|Gawil]], who had formerly held all Berar, proclaimed his independence and founded the Imad Shahi dynasty of Berar sultanate. He proceeded to annex [[Mahur, Maharashtra|Mahur]] to his new kingdom and had capital at [[Ellichpur]]. Imad-ul-Mulk was by birth a [[Kannada|Kanarese]] Hindu, but had been captured as a boy in one of the expeditions against the [[Vijayanagara empire]] and brought up as a Muslim. [[Gavilgad]] and [[Narnala]] were also fortified by him.

He died in 1504 and his successor, Ala-ud-din resisted the aggression of Ahmadnagar with the help from Bahadur Shah, sultan of Gujarat. The next ruler, Darya tried to align with Bijapur to prevent aggression of Ahamadnagar, but was unsuccessful. In 1568 when [[Burhan Imad Shah]] was deposed by his minister [[Tufail Khan]], and assumed the kingship. This gave a pretext for the intervention of [[Murtaza Nizam Shah]] of [[Ahmednagar]], who invaded Berar, imprisoned and put to death Tufail Khan, his son [[Shams-ul-Mulk]], and the ex-king Burhan, and annexed Berar to his own dominions of Ahmednagar sultanate.

====Sultans of Berar====
The Sultans of Berar belonged to the Imad Shahi Dynasty:
# [[Fathullah Imad-ul-Mulk]] 1490 – 1504
# [[Aladdin Imad Shah]] 1504 – 1529
# [[Darya Imad Shah]] 1529 – 1562 He developed a city Daryapur on the banks of Chandrabhaga River which today is a municipal council under Amravati District
# [[Burhan Imad Shah]] 1562 – 1568<ref name="michell_275">Michell, George & Mark Zebrowski. ''Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates'' (''[[The New Cambridge History of India]]'' Vol. I:7), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999, {{ISBN|0-521-56321-6}}, p.275</ref>
# [[Tufail Khan]] (usurper) 1568 – 1572<ref name="Sewell_166">Robert Sewell. ''Lists of inscriptions, and sketch of the dynasties of southern India'' (''The New Cambridge History of India'' Vol. I:7), Printed by E. Keys at the Government Press, 1884, , p.166</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Shi'a Muslim dynasties]]
*[[Battle of Talikota]]

==References==

<references/>

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070629153707/http://www.hostkingdom.net/india.html#Berar List of Sultans of Berar]

==See also==
*[[Berar Subah]]
*[[Berar Province]]

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