the end of the Qutb Shahis' rule, it was the primary court language with Persian used occasionally in official documents. According to Indologist Richard Eaton, as Qutb Shahis adopted Telugu, they started seeing their polity as the Telugu-speaking state, with the elites of the sultanate viewing their rulers as "Telugu Sultans".

History

The dynasty's founder, Sultan Quli Khawas Khan Hamdani was born in Hamadan,

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