Bîjâpur

Bîjâpur is a city of the Indian State of the Karnataka, located at 530 kilometers in the North-West of Bangalore. The city has several buildings of certain historical and architectural importance. Pattadakal, in the district of Bîjâpur shelters a complex of temples Hindou S, built by the Chalukya and which belongs to the world heritage of UNESCO.

History

The city is very old, certainly founded before 1074 on an urban site perhaps called Bijjanhalli , it was the Vijayapura , the city of the victory, the Châlukya, which will give by deformation the current name of the city. With 12th and 13th centuries, it is the capital of the dynasty of Yadava.

Towards the end of the 13th century, Bîjâpur falls under Moslem influence, that first of all of Alâ ud-DIN Khaljî, the sultan of Delhi, then under the Bahmanî of Bîdâr in 1347. Lastly, in 1481, Muhammad Laskrî Bahmanî III, one of Bahmanî, indicates Yusuf Âdil Khan as governor of Bîjâpur.

Yusuf Âdil Shâh is the son of the Othoman sultan Murad II. After death of the sultan and during the traditional fight to the death for her succession on the throne by the princes of crown, the mother of Yusuf secretly replaces it by a young slave and sends it in Persia. After certain a number of adventures, it ends up being bought like slave by Mahmûd Gâwân, the vizier de Muhammad III, Yusuf ends up reaching the court of Bîdâr where it makes great impression by his personality what is worth its nomination to him.

With the decline of the power of Bahmanî de Bîdâr, Yusuf declares its independence in 1489 and becomes thus the founder of the dynasty of Âdil Shâhî which reigns on Bîjâpur until its annexation by Aurangzeb in 1686.

The city was the seat of one of the schools of miniatures, said Dekkanî . Active with the XVIe and 17th century, the school of Bîjâpur is characterized first of all by a style of Persan inspiration before imitating the style of Delhi, while preserving typical Indian elements.

The town of Bîjâpur

Bîjâpur kept a strongly Moslem character and has many important monuments and historical ruins which are its principal attraction. One will note particularly:

the Gol Gumbad , the mausoleum built by Muhammad Âdil Shâh in 1650, a chief of work of the Islamic architecture of Dekkan,
the Jâmî masjid , whose construction is started by Alî Âdil Shâh and who will be finished by Aurangzeb.

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