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{{Infobox former monarchy
|royal_title = Raja/Maharaja/Sultan
|realm = Malwa
|coatofarms = Seal of King of Malwa under Paramaras.png
|coatofarmssize = 130px
|coatofarmscaption = Coat of Arms under the [[Paramaras]]
|image = Unknown Indian - Baz Bahadur Riding with Rupmati - Google Art Project.jpg
|caption = '''Last to reign''' '''[[Baz Bahadur]]''' 1555–1562
|first_monarch = [[Jayavarman I of Malwa|Jayavarman]]
|last_monarch = [[Baz Bahadur]]
|style =
|residence =
|appointer = [[Inheritance|Hereditary]]
|began = 350
|ended = 1562
|border = imperial
|pretender =
}}
The Kingdom of Malwa was ruled by kings discontinuously from 350 to 1462.

== Later Gupta dynasty (575–606) ==

* [[Mahasenagupta]] (575–601)
* [[Devagupta]] (601–606)

==Paramara dynasty (948–1305)==
{{main|Paramara dynasty}}

According to historian Kailash Chand Jain, "Knowledge of the early Paramara rulers from Upendra to Vairisimha is scanty; there are no records, and they are known only from later sources."<ref>{{cite book |last=Jain |first=Kailash Chand |year=1972 |title=Malwa Through the Ages, from the Earliest Times to 1305 A.D |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3O7q7cU7k0C&pg=PA329 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |pages=329 |isbn=978-81-208-0824-9}}</ref> An inscription from [[Udaipur (Madhya Pradesh)|Udaipur]] indicates that the Paramara dynasty survived until 1310, at least in the north-eastern part of Malwa. A later inscription shows that the area had been captured by the [[Delhi Sultanate]] by 1338.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Jackson (historian) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lt2tqOpVRKgC |title=The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-521-54329-3 |page=199}}</ref>

The Paramara rulers mentioned in the various inscriptions and literary sources include:

{| class="wikitable"
|+List of Paramara dynasty rulers
! Serial No.
! Ruler
! Reign (CE)
|-
|1
|Paramara (legendary)
|legendary
|-
|2
|Upendra (Krishnaraja)
|early 9th century
|-
|3
|Vairisimha I
|early 9th century
|-
|4
|Siyaka I
|mid-9th century
|-
|5
|Vakpatiraja I
|late 9th – early 10th century
|-
|6
|Vairisimha II
|mid-10th century
|-
|7
|[[Siyaka]] II
|940–972
|-
|8
|[[Vakpati Munja|Vakpatiraja II]] (alias ''Munja'')
|972–990
|-
|9
|[[Sindhuraja]]
|990–1010
|-
|10
|[[Bhoja]]
|1010–1055
|-
|11
|[[Jayasimha I (Paramara dynasty)|Jayasimha I]]
|1055–1070
|-
|12
|[[Udayaditya]]
|1070–1086
|-
|13
|[[Lakshmadeva]]
|1086–1094
|-
|14
|[[Naravarman]]
|1094–1133
|-
|15
|[[Yashovarman (Paramara dynasty)|Yashovarman]]
|1133–1142
|-
|16
|[[Jayavarman I (Paramara dynasty)|Jayavarman I]]
|1142–1143
|-
|17
|''[[Interregnum]] (1143–1175)'' under the usurper Ballala and later the [[Solanki dynasty|Solanki king]] [[Kumarapala (Chaulukya dynasty)|Kumarapala]]
|1143–1175
|-
|18
|[[Vindhyavarman]]
|1175–1194
|-
|19
|[[Subhatavarman]]
|1194–1209
|-
|20
|[[Arjunavarman I]]
|1210–1215
|-
|21
|[[Devapala (Paramara dynasty)|Devapala]]
|1215/1218–1239
|-
|22
|[[Jaitugideva]]
|1239–1255
|-
|23
|[[Jayavarman II (Paramara dynasty)|Jayavarman II]]
|1255–1274
|-
|24
|[[Arjunavarman II]]
|1274–1285
|-
|25
|[[Bhoja II (Paramara dynasty)|Bhoja II]]
|1285–1301
|-
|26
|[[Mahalakadeva]]
|1301–1305
|}

==Sultan of the Malwa Sultanate==

{| style="width:100%;" class="wikitable"
! style="background:#f0dc82; width:27%;"| Royal Title
! style="background:#f0dc82; width:25%;"| Personal name
! style="background:#f0dc82; width:25%;"| Reign
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| [[Dilawar Khan]] was appointed as the governor of [[Malwa|Malwa province]] in 1392 by the [[Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate]]. He declared himself independent in 1401 by establishing Malwa Sultanate. He was the first Sultan of Malwa from '''Ghurid dynasty'''.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |first=Upendra Nath |last=Day |title=Medieval Malwa: a Political and Cultural History, 1401-1562 |location=Delhi |publisher=Munshi Ram Manohar Lal |year=1965 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/medievalmalwaapo001927mbp/page/n23 8]–24 |url=https://archive.org/details/medievalmalwaapo001927mbp |accessdate=2020-05-18}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Dilawar Khan|Dilawar Khan Ghuri]] {{Nastaliq| دلاور خان غوری}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1401–1406
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Hoshang Shah|Husam-ud-Din Hoshang Shah]] {{Nastaliq|حسام الدین ہوشنگ شاہ}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1406–1435
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| Taj-ud-Din Muhammad Shah {{Nastaliq|تاج الدین محمد شاہ}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1435–1436
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| Ghurid dynasty replaced by '''Khilji dynasty''', the founder of which, Mahmud Khalji, was a grandnephew of Dilawar Khan.<ref name=":0" />
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Mahmud Khalji|Ala-ud-Din Mahmud Shah I]] {{Nastaliq|علاؤالدین محمود شاہ اول}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1436–1469
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Ghiyas-ud-Din Shah]] {{Nastaliq|غیاث الدین شاہ}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1469–1500
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| Nasir-ud-Din Shah {{Nastaliq|ناصر الدین شاہ}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1500–1510
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| Shihab-ud-Din Mahmud Shah II {{Nastaliq| شہاب الدین محمود شاہ دوئم}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1510–1531
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| The Rajput ruler of Mewar Maharana Sanga [[Battle of Gagron|defeated and imprisoned Mahmud Shah II]] and conquered most of Malwa.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sharma |first=Dasharatha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wi1uAAAAMAAJ |title=Lectures on Rajput History and Culture |date=1970 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-0-8426-0262-4 |page=27 |language=en |quote=Early 16th century marks the rise of patriotic one eyed chief of Mewar named as Rana Sanga who defeat several of his neighbor kingdom and establish Rajput hold on Malwa first time after fall of Parmara dynasty through series of victories over Malwa, Gujarat and Delhi Sultanate.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Sharma |first=Gopi Nath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jIs9AAAAMAAJ |title=Mewar & the Mughal Emperors (1526–1707 A.D.) |date=1954 |publisher=S.L. Agarwala |pages=17–18 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Raja''
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Medini Rai]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chaurasia |first=Radhey Shyam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XnaL7zPXPUC |title=History of Medieval India: From 1000 A.D. to 1707 A.D. |date=2002 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist |isbn=978-81-269-0123-4 |page=156 |language=en}}</ref>
(ruled as a vassal of [[Rana Sanga]])
|style="text-align:center;"| 1519–1527
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| The interregnum; as the [[Gujarat Sultanate|Sultan of Gujarat]] [[Bahadur Shah of Gujarat|Bahadur Shah]] defeated Mahmud Shah II and himself reigned as the Sultan of Malwa.<ref name=majumdar>Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2006). ''The Delhi Sultanate'', Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, pp.173-86</ref>
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Bahadur Shah of Gujarat|Bahadur Shah]] {{Nastaliq|بہادر شاہ}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1531 – 1536
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Humayun]] defeated Sultan Bahadur Shah and briefly occupied Malwa for a year in between 1535 – 1536.<ref name=":1" />
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Amir'' {{Nastaliq|امیر}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Hindal Mirza]] {{Nastaliq|هندل میرزا}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1535 – 1536
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Bahadur Shah of Gujarat|Bahadur Shah]] {{Nastaliq|بہادر شاہ}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1536 – 1537
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Malwa passed down to Muhammad Shah I, the eldest nephew of Bahadur Shah and Sultan of [[Khandesh Sultanate]] for a few months but he died before his coronation.
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Farooqui dynasty#History of Farooqui dynasty#Miran Muhammad Shah Faroqi I|Miran Muhammad Shah I]] {{Nastaliq|میران محمد شاہ اول}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1537
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Independence declared under a Khilji noble, Mallu Khan as ''Qadir Shah''.
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Qadir Shah]] {{Nastaliq|قادر شاہ}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1537 – 1542
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| 1542 – 1555; era of semi-independent governors of [[Sur Empire]].
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Wali'' {{Nastaliq| ولی}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| Shuja’at Khan {{Nastaliq|شجاعت خان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1542
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Wali'' {{Nastaliq| ولی}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| Isa Khan {{Nastaliq|عیسیٰ خان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1542 – 1545
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Wali'' {{Nastaliq| ولی}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| Shuja’at Khan {{Nastaliq|شجاعت خان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1545 – 1552
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"|Independence declared under the son of Shujaat Khan, [[Baz Bahadur]].
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ''Sultan'' {{Nastaliq| سلطان}} 
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Baz Bahadur]] {{Nastaliq|باز بہادر}} 
| style="text-align:center;"|1555 – 1562
|-
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center;"| Malwa Sultanate was abolished in 1562 after Baz Bahadur's defeat [[Mughal conquest of Malwa|against Mughal army]].<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Chandra |first1=Satish |title=Medieval India: From Sultanat To The Mughals-Mughal Empire (1526-1748) - Part II |date=2007 |pages=103–104}}</ref>
|-
|}

==Family tree==
===Ghurid Dynasty===
{{Chart top|width=100%|collapsed=yes|Ghurid Dynasty}}
{{Tree chart/start|align=center|style=font-size:90%}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | A01 | | | | | | | | | |A01='''[[Dilawar Khan]]''' ?-1406 '''Governor of [[Malwa]]''' R.1391–1401 '''Sultan of [[Malwa Sultanate|Malwa]]''' R.1401–1406 |boxstyle_ A01=border-color:#FFD700}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | |!| | | | | | | | | | |}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | A01 | | | | | | | | | |A01='''[[Hoshang Shah]]''' '''Sultan of [[Malwa Sultanate|Malwa]]''' R.1406–1435 |boxstyle_ A01=border-color:#FFD700}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | |!| | | | | | | | | | |}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | A01 | | | | | | | | | |A01='''[[Taj-ud-Din Muhammad Shah|Muhammad Shah]]''' '''Sultan of [[Malwa Sultanate|Malwa]]''' R.1435–1436 |boxstyle_ A01=border-color:#FFD700}}
{{Tree chart/end}}
{{Chart bottom}}

===Khalji Dynasty===
{{Chart top|width=100%|collapsed=yes|Khalji Dynasty}}
{{Tree chart/start|align=center|style=font-size:90%}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | A01 | | | | | | | | | |A01='''[[Mahmud Khalji|Mahmud Shah I]]''' '''Sultan of [[Malwa Sultanate|Malwa]]''' R.1436–1469 |boxstyle_ A01=border-color:#FFD700}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | |!| | | | | | | | | | |}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | A01 | | | | | | | | | |A01='''[[Ghiyath Shah]]''' '''Sultan of [[Malwa Sultanate|Malwa]]''' R.1469–1500 |boxstyle_ A01=border-color:#FFD700}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | |!| | | | | | | | | | |}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | A01 | | | | | | | | | |A01='''Nasir Shah''' '''Sultan of [[Malwa Sultanate|Malwa]]''' R.1500–1510 |boxstyle_ A01=border-color:#FFD700}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | |!| | | | | | | | | | |}}
{{Tree chart| | | | | | | | | | A01 | | | | | | | | | |A01='''[[Shihab-ud-Din Mahmud Shah II|Mahmud Shah II]]''' '''Sultan of [[Malwa Sultanate|Malwa]]''' R.1510–1531 |boxstyle_ A01=border-color:#FFD700}}
{{Tree chart/end}}
{{Chart bottom}}

== See also ==
* [[Malwa]]
* [[Ujjain]]
* [[Vikramaditya]]
* [[Malavas]]
* [[Malwa culture]]
* [[History of India]]
* [[List of Indian monarchs]]
* [[List of dynasties and rulers Rajasthan]]
* [[History of Madhya Pradesh]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Wikiquote|Malwa Sultanate}}
* [http://coinindia.com/galleries-malwasultans.html Coins of the Malwa Sultanate]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120828120416/http://www.anwarscoincollection.com/category/malwa-sultanate-amirs-of-sind/ Sultans of Malwa]}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Sultans of Malwa| ]]
[[Category:Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent]]
[[Category:History of Ujjain]]
[[Category:Lists of Indian monarchs]]
[[Category:Kings of Malwa| ]]
[[Category:Lists of Indian monarchs|Malwa]]

List of kings of Malwa - Revision history

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