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Islam is without doubt a great equalizer. So many people from slave background could dream to become top generals, administrators and even kings. We had a Slave Dynasty. In #BahmaniEmpire where they imported slaves from abroad, many of them grabbed top positions.
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Malik Ambar, Ethiopian slave went on to attain a height no one could think of as possible. If you had quality, you could achieve anything. He allied with Chand Bibi and when Ahmadnagar was overran by Mughals, he took control and managed the Ahmadnagar sultanate for 2 decades.
Ahmadnagar Sultanate was also founded by son of a slave. Malik Hasan Bahri, a former slave, rose to become the Bahmani governor of Tilangana and later became the Prime Minister of Bahmani Empire. His son, Ahmad Nizam Shah went on to found the powerful Adil Shahi Sultanate.
Vijayanagar Kingdom, after a spate of losses against Bahmani empire and after being tired of paying tributes to its powerful neighbor was now under pressure to come up with some strategy to defeat the Bahmnis.
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The Vijayanagar kings and generals had lost to the Bahmani empire from the day one and despite a few small victories of their own, had always felt particularly weak to compete against the emperors first at Gulbarga and then Bidar.
Even in beginning of rule of Sultan Alauddin Ahmad II, he was handed down a crushing defeat by Bahmani army under the command of Muhammad Khan. He had to clear tributes for multiple years and had to gift hundreds of his best musicians, dancers and artists to their historic foes.
