Small Muslim kingdom of the Deccan in India, founded in 1531 by Qasim Barid I, whose family had been serving as ministers of the Bahmani Sultanate in its capital Bidar, in present-day Karnataka, since around 1425. Centred around the city of Bidar, it was one of the five kingdoms to succeed the Bahmani Sultanate, and was later annexed into the neighbouring Bijapur Sultanate in 1619. Though frequently warring with adjacent kingdoms, the sultanate under the Barid Shahis allied with the Bidar, Golconda and Ahmadnagar sultanates to overthrow the Vijayanagara kingdom in the Battle of Talikota (1565). The city of Bidar was captured by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1657 and remained under the Mughal empire until 1724, when it came under the governance of the Nizam of Hyderabad.