Deccani (also Dakhini, Dakhni or Dekhani) is anything related to the
Deccan
The Deccan is a plateau extending over an area of and occupies the majority of the Indian peninsula. It stretches from the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges in the north to the northern fringes of Tamil Nadu in the south. It is bound by the mount ...
region of India. Specifically, it may be:
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Deccani language
Deccani ( ''dakanī'' or ''dakhanī''; also known as Deccani Urdu, Deccani Hindi, and Deccani Hindustani) is an Indo-Aryan language variety based on a form of Hindustani spoken in the Deccan region of south-central India and is the native l ...
, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in southern India, closely related to Urdu
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Deccani Muslims
The Deccanis or Deccani people are an Indo-Aryan ethno-religious community of Deccani-speaking Muslims who inhabit or are from the Deccan region of India. The community traces its origins to the shifting of the Delhi Sultanate's capital from Del ...
, speakers of Deccani
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Deccani film industry
The Deccani film industry, also known as Dollywood is the Deccani and Hyderabadi Urdu-language film industry based in Hyderabad, India. The films have gained popularity not only in the Deccan region of India, but as well as other Hindi-Urdu spe ...
, Deccani-language film industry based in Hyderabad, India
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Deccani Masnavi
''Deccani Masnavi'' ( Deccani: دکنی مثنوی; ''dakkʰinī mat̲h̲nawī'') is the name of the poem written in rhyming couplets in Deccani Urdu. It originated during the Bahmani Sultanate of Deccan (now South India) in the early 14th c ...
, collection of poetry in Deccani
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Deccani painting
Deccani (also Dakhini, Dakhni or Dekhani) is anything related to the Deccan region of India. Specifically, it may be:
*Deccani language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in southern India, closely related to Urdu
**Deccani Muslims, speakers of Deccani ...
, a style of Indian painting
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Deccani Marathi
Berar-Deccan Marathi, is a possible language of the Marathi–Konkani group, or perhaps just a regional dialect of Marathi. ''Glottolog'' reports that it is closely related to Varhadi-Nagpuri. (Sub)dialects are Bijapuri (of Bijapur district ...
, a dialect of the Marathi language
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Deccani architecture
The Deccan sultanates were five Medieval India#Early modern period, early modern kingdoms, namely Sultanate of Bijapur, Bijapur, Sultanate of Golconda, Golkonda, Ahmadnagar Sultanate, Ahmadnagar, Bidar Sultanate, Bidar, and Berar Sultanate, B ...
, Indian architectural style
See also
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Deccan (disambiguation)
Deccan refers to the Deccan Plateau, a peninsular plateau in southern India, and southern India in general.
Deccan may also refer to:
Places
* Deccan Gymkhana, a sports neighborhood in Pune, India
* East Deccan dry evergreen forests, forests in ...
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Deccan sultanates
The Deccan sultanates is a historiographical term referring to five late medieval to early modern Persianate Indian Muslim kingdoms on the Deccan Plateau between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range. They were created from the disintegrati ...
, sultanates in medieval-India
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Hyderabadi Muslims
Hyderabadi Muslims, also referred to as Hyderabadis, are a community of Deccani people, from the area that used to be the princely state of Hyderabad in the regions of Marathwada, Telangana, and Kalyana-Karnataka.
While the term "Hyderabad ...
, Muslims from Hyderabad, India and surrounding regions, of which the Deccani Muslims form a sub-group
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