Knowra Deccan Deccan The Deccan is a historical and cultural region of peninsular India centered on the Deccan Plateau. Its boundaries have shifted across periods and political traditions.
Satavahana dynasty : An ancient Indian dynasty that ruled much of the Deccan from around the first century BCE to the third century CE. Its early rule helped establish the Deccan as a major center of regional power.
Deccan Plateau : A large plateau in peninsular India, bounded broadly by the Western and Eastern Ghats. It forms the region’s central landform, though the historical Deccan extends beyond it.
Shivaji : A seventeenth-century Indian ruler who founded the Maratha state and was crowned Chhatrapati in 1674. His state-building in the western Deccan transformed regional politics.
Deccani language : A group of Indo-Aryan speech varieties that developed in the Deccan, including a literary form of Urdu known as Dakhni. Its history reflects linguistic exchange among Deccan communities and courts.
South India : The broad southern region of the Indian subcontinent, defined in geographic, historical, and cultural contexts. The Deccan is a major part of South India, but the two labels do not share identical boundaries.
Chalukya dynasty : A series of Indian dynasties associated with the Deccan, especially the Chalukyas of Badami, who ruled from the sixth to eighth centuries. The Badami Chalukyas built a powerful Deccan kingdom and shaped its early medieval history.
Western Ghats : A mountain range running along the western edge of peninsular India. The range marks a major western boundary and shapes access between the plateau and coast.
Ibrahim Adil Shah II : The Bijapur sultan who ruled from 1580 to 1627 and patronized music, painting, and literature. His court exemplifies the Deccan sultanates’ distinctive artistic and multilingual culture.
Deccani painting : A school of miniature painting developed at Deccan courts from the sixteenth century onward. Its vivid courtly style gives visual form to the region’s layered artistic influences.
Northern India : The northern part of the Indian subcontinent, a broad region with varied historical and geographic definitions. Contrasting it with the Deccan clarifies the recurring north–south divide in Indian political histories.
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