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Firishta
Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah, was a Persian historian born in Astarabad who served the Nizam Shahi court at Ahmadnagar and then Ibrahim Adil Shah II at Bijapur. His Tarikh-i Firishta, completed in the early seventeenth century, is a history of Muslim rule in India and the main narrative source for the Bahmani Sultanate and the Deccan sultanates, though it relies partly on legend.
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