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INTRODUCTION
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available evidence that he waited for over a decade to
launch his attack on Madhurai.
5. KAMPAŅA'S CONQUEST
The favourable circumstances which Kampaņa
awaited came during the rule of Qurbat Hassan Kangu
the last ruler of Madhurai. He had absolutely no pre-
vious experience in South India for he had been
brought from Daulatabad to fill a vacant throne in
Madhurai.30 Evidently there was no suitable person to
rule over Madhurai after Nasiruddin. To go to Delhi with
a request for a suitable occupant was out of the ques-
tion not only because the Muslims had severed their
connection with it but also because it was very distant.
Again the Muslims of the Madhurai Kingdom had al-
ready a powerful Hindu neighbour in Kampaṇa whom
they had to guard against. By this time the Bahmani
and Vijayanagar kingdoms had come to look upon each
other as rivals. So the Muslims of Madhurai wanted
to get into touch with the Bahmani kingdom with
whose assistance they could destroy the Vijayanagar
power near their own territories. This Qurbat Hassan
was a relative of Hassan Kangu, most probably his son-
in-law; for Qurbat means son-in-law.³1 In a sense by
the election and elevation of Qurbat to the throne the
Bahmani rule was established in Madhurai. It is in-
teresting now to note that while in the Deccan the
Vijayanagar and Bahmani kingdoms stood side by side,
frowning upon each other, in the South their viceroyal-
30. Cf., Tarikh-i-Firoz-Shahi: "When the great king Sultan Mu-
hammad died firmans bearing our signatures were despatched to you.
You had shown no obedience to our orders and went to Dau-
latabad, brought Qurbat Hassan Kangu and set him up in Ma'bar."
(Tr. by Dr. N. Venkataramanayya, Ma'bar, pp. 58-59).
31. S. H. O. Hodivala: Studies in Indo-Muslim History, p. 326.
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available evidence that he waited for over a decade to
launch his attack on Madhurai.
5. KAMPAŅA'S CONQUEST
The favourable circumstances which Kampaņa
awaited came during the rule of Qurbat Hassan Kangu
the last ruler of Madhurai. He had absolutely no pre-
vious experience in South India for he had been
brought from Daulatabad to fill a vacant throne in
Madhurai.30 Evidently there was no suitable person to
rule over Madhurai after Nasiruddin. To go to Delhi with
a request for a suitable occupant was out of the ques-
tion not only because the Muslims had severed their
connection with it but also because it was very distant.
Again the Muslims of the Madhurai Kingdom had al-
ready a powerful Hindu neighbour in Kampaṇa whom
they had to guard against. By this time the Bahmani
and Vijayanagar kingdoms had come to look upon each
other as rivals. So the Muslims of Madhurai wanted
to get into touch with the Bahmani kingdom with
whose assistance they could destroy the Vijayanagar
power near their own territories. This Qurbat Hassan
was a relative of Hassan Kangu, most probably his son-
in-law; for Qurbat means son-in-law.³1 In a sense by
the election and elevation of Qurbat to the throne the
Bahmani rule was established in Madhurai. It is in-
teresting now to note that while in the Deccan the
Vijayanagar and Bahmani kingdoms stood side by side,
frowning upon each other, in the South their viceroyal-
30. Cf., Tarikh-i-Firoz-Shahi: "When the great king Sultan Mu-
hammad died firmans bearing our signatures were despatched to you.
You had shown no obedience to our orders and went to Dau-
latabad, brought Qurbat Hassan Kangu and set him up in Ma'bar."
(Tr. by Dr. N. Venkataramanayya, Ma'bar, pp. 58-59).
31. S. H. O. Hodivala: Studies in Indo-Muslim History, p. 326.