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Bahmani Kingdom
Kingdom in Deccan India (1347–1527)
"Bahmani" redirects here. For places in Iran, see Bahmani, Iran.
The Bahmani Kingdom or the Bahmani Sultanate was a late medieval kingdom that ruled the Deccan plateau in India. The first independent Muslim sultanate of the Deccan,[7] the Bahmani Kingdom came to power in 1347 during the rebellion of Ismail Mukh against Muhammad bin Tughlaq, the Sultan of Delhi. Ismail Mukh then abdicated in favour of Zafar Khan, who established the Bahmani Sultanate.
The Bahmani Kingdom was perpetually at war with its neighbours, including its rival to the south, the Vijayanagara Empire, which outlasted the sultanate.[8] The Mahmud Gawan Madrasa was created by Mahmud Gawan, the vizier regent who was prime minister of the sultanate from 1466 until his execution in 1481 during a conflict between the foreign (Afaqis) and local (Deccanis) nobility. Bidar Fort was built by Ahmad Shah I (r. 1422–36), who relocated the
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Bhabani Bhattacharya
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Introduction
Bengali-born Indian author Bhabani Bhattacharya specialized in socially realistic novels. He was born on November 10th, 1906, and passed away on October 10th, 1988. He was born in Bhagalpur, a region of British India's Bengal Presidency. Bhattacharya graduated from Patna University with a bachelor's degree and from the University of London with a doctorate.
After traveling back to India, he joined the diplomatic corps. Bhattacharya served his country in the United States, where he later settled and worked as a literary studies instructor. He taught in Hawaii before moving on to Seattle. Bhattacharya started penning fiction in his mid-thirties based on socially and historically accurate settings. He chose the language of English as his writing style after consulting with two eminent authors.
Personal Life
Bhattacharya was born in Bhagalpur, a distrikt of British India's Bengal Presidency. He was born to Bengali parents. Bhattacha
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List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Bengali
List of Bengali Sahitya Akademi winners
Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations. This is the second highest literary award of India, after Jnanpith Award. The awards given to Bengali writers for works in Bengali and English as well as for translations from Bengali literature are given below.
Sahitya Akademi Award winners
[edit]Following is the list of Akademi Award winners. No awards were conferred in 1960, 1968 and 1973.[1]
Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar winners
[edit]Sahitya Akademi Youth Award winners
[edit]Main article: List of Yuva Puraskar winners for Bengali
Bengali winners of Sahitya Akademi Award for English
[edit]Translations from Bengali literature
[edit]- 1989 – Nagindas Parekh – Na Hanyate (novel, Gujarati tr. from Maitreyi Devi),
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