Mahmud Gawan was a Persian prime minister in the Bahmani Sultanate of Deccan.
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19 Facts About Mahmud Gawan
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Khwaja Mahmud Gilani, from the village of Gawan in Persia, was well-versed in Islamic theology, Persian language and Mathematics and was a poet and a prose writer of repute.
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Mahmud Gawan was a competent and successful general, a capable administrator and patron of art and poetry.
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Mahmud Gawan hailed from Gilan in Persia, born into a family of imperial ministers.
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Mahmud Gawan eventually left his homeland due to discontentment with its political environment.
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Mahmud Gawan toured various regions of Asia, finding success as a merchant and developing an affinity for learning.
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Mahmud Gawan arrived in the Indian subcontinent in the year 1453, at the port of Dabhol, motivated by financial opportunities offered by the rich courts of South Asia.
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Mahmud Gawan subsequently gained an audience with the Bahmani Sultan Ahmad Shah II.
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The Bahmani Sultanate had consistently favoured high-born Persianate men of talent, and hence Mahmud Gawan was well-received and made a noble of the Bahmani court, beginning his political career in the Deccan.
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Mahmud Gawan was a gifted administrator and a skilled general.
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Mahmud Gawan effectively put an end to the havoc wrought on the pilgrims of Mecca and on merchants by the fleets of Rana Shankarrao Surve and Rana Neelkanthrao Surve of Khelna and Sangameshwar which were part of Shringarpur jagir of Surve Maratha clan respectively.
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Mahmud Gawan instated a land revenue system and drastically reduced the power of the nobles.
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Mahmud Gawan served the state most faithfully and enlarged the kingdom to an extent never achieved before.
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Mahmud Gawan conquered Kanchi or Kanjeevaram during the course of campaign against Vijayanagar.
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Mahmud Gawan fought successful wars against rulers of Konkan, Sangameshwara, Orissa and Vijayanagar.
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Mahmud Gawan captured Goa and Dabhol, the best part of Vijayanagar empire.
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The treasonable documents presented by the critics of Mahmud Gawan were the letters written to the Gajapati king Purushottamadeva of Orissa, which were claimed to have been written by Mahmud.
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Russian traveler, Athanasius Nikitin, who visited Bidar, has recorded that Mahmud Gawan's mansion was guarded by a hundred armed men and ten torchbearers.
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