Qasim Barid I

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Qasim Barid I (r.1489-1504) was a prime-minister of the Bahmani sultanate and the founder of the Bidar Sultanate, one of the five late medieval Indian kingdoms together known as the Deccan sultanates. Qasim Barid was a Turk, domiciled in Georgia or Muslim (Shia) Georgian.[1][2][3] He entered the service of the Bahmani sultan Muhammad Shah III. He later became the prime-minister of the Bahmani sultanate.[4] Some have claimed that Qasim Barid was of Hungarian descent.[5]

Qasim Barid I led one of the first revolts against the Bahmani Sultanate. He was able to get himself made chief of state but had seriously undermined the stability of the kingdom.[6] The Bahmani governors of Junnar, Bijapur and Berar refused to acknowledge the authority of Qasim Barid and in June,1490 Malik Ahmad Nizam-ul-Mulk, the governor of Junnar founded the independent Ahmednagar Sultanate followed by the foundation of the independent Bijapur Sultanate by Yusuf Adil Khan and Berar Sultanate by Fathullh Imad-ul-Mulk in the same year.[7] The founding of the dynasty occurred in 1492.[8]

Qasim Barid died in 1504 and was succeeded by his son Amir Barid I, as the prime minister of the Bahmani Sultanate who also became the de facto ruler like his father.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Keene, Henry George. (Ed.) (1894) An Oriental Biographical Dictionary, Founded on Materials Collected by the Late Thomas William Beale. New edition revised and enlarged. London: W.H. Allen & Co.
  2. ↑ Constable, Archibald (1994). Travels in the Mogul Empire, AD 1656-1668 (Francois Bernier). p. 192. 
  3. ↑ Gribble, JD (1990). History of the Decan. p. 168. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). The Mughul Empire, Mumbai:Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, ISBN 81-7276-407-1, p.466
  5. ↑ QASIM, THE HUNGARIAN FOUNDER OF THE BARID SHAHI DYNASTY OF AHMADABAD BIDR, IN SOUTHERN INDIA - ELLIS s5-VII (178): 408 - Notes and Queries
  6. ↑ Qasim Barid (Bahmani minister) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  7. ↑ Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2006). The Delhi Sultanate, Mumbai:Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, p.268
  8. ↑ webindia123.com-Indian History-Medieval-Delhisultanate-THE BAHMANI DYNASTY OF THE DECCAN
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