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 262 INDIAN SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE. BOOK VII. CHAPTER VIII. KULBARGA. CONTENTS. The Mosque at Kulbarga Madrasa at Bidar Tombs. CHRONOLOGY. 'Alau - d - Din Hasan Gangii, Bahmani, a servant in Muhammad Tughlaq's court A. D. 1347 Muhammad Shah I. Ghazi. ,, 1358 Mujahid Shah. . . . ,, 1375 Mahmud Shah I. (or Muhammad jShahll.). . . . ,, 1378 Taju-d-Din FirCiz Shah married daughter of Devaraya of Vijayanagar 1397 Ahmad Shah I., capital Bidar 1422 'Alau-d-Din Ahmad Shah II. A.D. 1435 Kalim Allah Shah, last of the Bahmani dynasty. . . ,, 1525 Qasim I., Barid, founder of Barid Shahi dynasty of Bidar ,, 1492 'All Barid Shahi, assumed royalty. . . . ,, 1542 Amir Barid Shah, last of his race 1609 THE campaigns of 'Alau-d-Din and of Tughlaq Shah in the beginning of the I4th century extended the fame and fear of the Moslim power over the whole peninsula of India, as far as Cape Comorin and the Straits of Manar. It was almost impossible, however, that a state in the semi-barbarous condition of the Afghans of that day could so organise a government as to rule so extensive and varied an empire from one central point, and that as remote as Delhi. Tughlaq Shah felt this, and proposed to establish the capital at Daulatabad. If he had been able to accomplish this, the whole of the south might have been permanently conquered. As it was, the Ballala dynasty of Halebid was destroyed in A.D. 131 1, 1 and that of Worangal crippled but not finally conquered till some time afterwards, while the rising power of Vijayanagar formed a barrier which shielded the southern states against Muhammadan encroach- ment for some centuries after that time ; and but for the estab- lishment of Muhammadan kingdoms independent of the central 1 Ante, vol. i. p. 437.