Bairam Khan was a Persian Turk and Shia Muslim. He served under Babur, Humanyun and Akbar. He had also accompanied Humayun in his wanderings and gone to Persia with him. Humayun was so much pleased with his wisdom and loyalty that he regarded him as his most trustworthy follower and used to say, "There is no other so luminous a [...]
Hari Hara I founded the Vijayanagara empire in collaboration with his brother Bukka. Earlier both of them were in the service of Pratap Rudra Deva Kakakitya of Warrangal. They fled from their place in 1323 when the Muslims captured it. They took up service with the Raja of Anagondi in the Raichur district. But soon this territory also fell in [...]
Nasir-ud-din Mahmud's accession to the throne after Razia's death and as a matter of fact while she was away from Delhi in connection with checking revolts, the 'Corps of forty' had made Bahram Shah, (1240- 1242) the son of Iltutmish as the Sultan of Delhi. The 'Corps of Forty' pressurised the Sultan to work according to their dictates. The Sultan, [...]