[[File:Complete view of Mahumad Gawan.JPG|thumb|right|Ruins of a [[Mahmud Gawan Madrasa|madrassa]] built by [[Mahmud Gawan]], the Bahmani minister.]]
The Deccan region's integration into the Indo-Persian culture of the north began in the early 14th century, when the Delhi Sultanate made political movements towards the south, and the Deccan was brought into the Sultanate under the conquests of the [[Tughluq dynasty]]. Due to the Sultan [[Muhammad bin Tughluq|Muhammad Shah]] policy of ordering a migration of the North Indian Muslim population of Delhi to migrate to the Deccan city of Daulatabad in 1327, thisin order to build a large Muslim urban centre in the Deccan. This led to a formal introduction of Indo-Persian culture in the Deccan, extending beyond the realm of the court.{{Sfn|Eaton|2008|p=22-24}}<ref>{{cite book |url=https://google.ca/books/edition/Languages_and_Literary_Cultures_in_Hyder/SusrDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bahmani+political+deccan&pg=PT120&printsec=frontcover |title=Languages and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad|date=2017 |author=Kousar.J. Azam |publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=8 }}</ref>
[[File:GolGumbaz2.jpg|thumb|right|[[Gol Gumbaz]], the mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur.]]
In the middle of the 14th century, the [[Urdu-speaking people|Urdu-speaking]] immigrant population of Daulatabad staged a revolt breaking off from the Delhi Sultanate, but Indo-Persian culture lived on in the region.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://google.ca/books/edition/Languages_and_Literary_Cultures_in_Hyder/SusrDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bahmani+political+deccan&pg=PT120&printsec=frontcover |title=Languages and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad|date=2017 |author=Kousar.J. Azam |publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=8 }}</ref> The breakaway [[Bahmani Sultanate]] was established in 1347, andby its[[Hasan Gangu]], originally a farmer from Delhi who was one of many inhabitants ordered by the Sultanate to migrate to the Deccan.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Mediaeval_Deccan_History/O_WNqSH4ByQC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |page= 34 |title=Mediaeval Deccan History: Commemoration Volume in Honour of Purshottam Mahadeo Joshi |date= 1996 |publisher= Popular Prakashan |author1=A. Rā Kulakarṇī |author2=M. A. Nayeem |author3=Teotonio R. De Souza }}</ref> Its rulers were greatly influenced by Persian culture., Theythey were well-versed in the language and its literature, and promoted Persian language education throughout their empire. The architecture cultivated by them had significant Iranian influences, even more than that of the Muslims in the north.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Ansari|first=N. H.|title=Bahmanid Dynasty|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bahmanid-dynasty-a-dynasty-founded-in-748-1347-in-the-deccan-sanskrit-daksia-lit|url-status=live|website=Encyclopaedia Iranica}}</ref> The Bahmani Sultans actively recruited Persian or Persianised men in their administration, and such foreigners were in fact favoured over Indians.{{Sfn|Eaton|2008|p=67-68}} Sultan [[Taj ud-Din Firuz Shah|Firuz Shah]] (1397-1422) sent ships from his ports in [[Goa]] and [[Chaul]] to the [[Persian Gulf]] to bring back talented men of letters, administrators, jurists, soldiers and artisans.{{Sfn|Eaton|2008|p=51-52}} This included the high-born Iranian [[Mahmud Gawan]] (1411-1481) who rose to become a powerful minister of that state during the reign of another Bahmani Sultan.{{Sfn|Eaton|2009|p=59-72}} The Persianised nature of the court is reflected in the fact that the Bahmanis celebrated festivals like [[Nowruz]].<ref name=":2" />
According to Richard Eaton, even the Hindu [[Vijayanagara]] empire from the same period was highly Persianised in its culture. The royal quarters of the capital had many Persian architectural elements such as domes and vaulted arches.{{Sfn|Eaton|2008|p=99-101}}
