Image Title:
Muhammad Khan, The Noble Ikhlas Khan with a Petition

Note:
"In 1490, an African guard, Sidi Badr, seized power in Bengal and ruled for three years before being murdered. Five thousand of the 30,000 men in his army were Ethiopians. After Sidi Badr’s assassination, high-level Africans were driven out and migrated to Gujarat and the Deccan. In the Deccan sultanate of Bijapur, Africans formerly enslaved—they were called the “Abyssinian party”—took control. The African regent Dilawar Khan exercised power from 1580 and was succeeded by Ikhlas Khan. The Abyssinian party dominated the Bijapur Sultanate and conquered new territories until the Mughal invasion in 1686." NYPL

Source:
Wikipedia

Date:
ca. 1650

Subject:
Afro-Indian - Noble - Royal - African - Abyssinian - Ethiopian

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-PPLIN-1

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