In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India.
Iran and the Deccan.
The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad.
Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century.
In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India