India Before Shivaji: The Deccan and the Mughals in the Early 1600s
Before Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj rose in the 1640s, India had been reshaped by nearly a century of wars. This documentary gives a political overview of the subcontinent in the early 1600s: the fall of Vijayanagara after the Battle of Talikota in 1565, the independent sultanates of the Deccan, the first European settlements, the growth of the Mughal Empire and the fall of the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Ahmednagar.
It opens Itiha's series on the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Chapters
00:00 Intro: India before Shivaji
00:25 The Battle of Talikota and the fall of Vijayanagara city
01:01 The independent states of the early 1600s
02:40 European settlements and colonies
03:02 The rise of the Mughal Empire
04:45 Muslim rule in the northern plains vs the Deccan plateau
05:45 The fall of the Nizam Shahi dynasty
06:15 The end of the Vijayanagara Empire
