Dilawar Khan
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Amid Shah Daud Dilawar Shah, born Dilawar Khan, was an Afghan or Turco-Afghan governor of the Malwa province of Central India appointed by the Delhi Sultan in 1392 and he later became the first Sultan
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Malwa Sultanate
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The Malwa Sultanate was a late medieval kingdom in the Malwa region, covering the present day Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and south-eastern Rajasthan from 1401 to 1562. It was founded by Dilawar K
Dilawar Khan
…the title of 'Amid Shāh Dā'ūd and caused the khutba to be read in his name in A.H. 804/C.E. 1401–02, declaring himself independent and establishing the Malwa Sultanate. He passed his kingdom – the Malwa Sultanate – to his son Hoshang Shah upon his death in A.H. 809/C.E. 1406. Dilawar Khan was a follower of Firuz Shah…
Depiction of a "Ghurid tyrant". Bustan of Sa‘di (1257). Copy from Mandu, Malwa Sultanate, India, c. 1500
Hoshang Shah's Tomb in Mandu
Preparation of Samosa for Ghiyath al-Din (r.1469-1500), Sultan of Malwa, at Mandu
An illustration from the manuscript of the Nimat Nama