page_title: Ahmadnagar Sultanate
section_title: List of rulers
hierarchical_section_title: Ahmadnagar Sultanate / List of rulers
caption_attribution_description: The execution of Khan Jahan Lodi and supporters (3 February 1631)
context_page_description: The Ahmadnagar Sultanate was a late medieval Indian kingdom, located in the northwestern Deccan, between the sultanates of Gujarat and Bijapur. Malik Ahmad, the Bahmani governor of Junnar after defeating the Bahmani army led by general Jahangir Khan on 28 May 1490 declared independence and established the Nizam Shahi dynasty rule over the sultanate of Ahmednagar. Initially his capital was in the town of Junnar with its fort, later renamed Shivneri. In 1494, the foundation was laid for the new capital Ahmadnagar. In 1636 Aurangzeb, then Mugal viceroy of Deccan finally annexed the sultanate to the Mughal empire.
context_section_description: The following is the list of the Nizam Shahi rulers of Ahmadnagar:
  Ahmad Nizam Shah I 1490–1510
  Burhan Nizam Shah I 1510–1553
  Hussain Nizam Shah I 1553–1565
  Murtaza Nizam Shah I 1565–1588
  Hussain Nizam Shah II 1588–1589
  Ismail Nizam Shah 1589–1591
  Burhan Nizam Shah II 1591–1595
  Chand Bibi 1595–1596
  Ahmad Nizam Shah II 1596
  Bahadur Nizam Shah 1596–1600
  Murtaza Nizam Shah II 1600–1610
  Burhan Nizam Shah III 1610–1631
  Hussain Nizam Shah III 1631–1633
  Murtaza Nizam Shah III 1633–1636
  Mughal historians and Emperors never referred to them as Nizam Shahs but rather as Nizam-ul-Mulk, since they were not recognised as equals.
caption: The treacherous Mughal Viceroy of the Deccan Khan Jahan Lodi was executed in the year 1630, for covertly allying himself with Burhan Nizam Shah III, against the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan[18]
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