The Bahmani Sultanate, or Bahmanid Empire, is a Muslim state of the Deccan Plateau in southern India between 1347 and 1527, and is one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms.

It occupies the North Deccan region to the river Krishna.

According to Muslim historians, a rebel chieftain of Saulatabad (an area around Ellora), is under Muhammad Bin Tughalaq.The Bahmani capital is Ahsanabad (Gulbarga) from 1347 to 1425, when it is moved to Muhammadabad (Bidar).

The sultanate reaches the peak of its power during the vizierate (1466–1481) of Mahmud Gawan.

About eighteen kings rule during the sultanate’s nearly 200 years.

After 1518, the kingdom is divided in four: Barishahi (Bidar), Kutbshahi (of Golkonda), Adamshahi( of Ahmadnagar), and Adilshahi (of Bijapur), known collectively as the Deccan sultanates.