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The turbulent events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are explained to some extent by the unique location of the Deccan plateau as a meeting place of forces from both North and South India, the promise of boundless land and wealth inspiring repeated invasion. In the first decades of the fourteenth century, the Deccan was subjugated by the Khaljis and Tughluqs, the first Muslim rulers of Delhi. Resistance to these assaults from Delhi occurred in three waves. The first was the military thrust of the mighty Hindu Vijayanagara kingdom south of the Tungabhadra-Krishna rivers in the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries. The second was the opposition of the Shia Muslim sultans such as the Shahis, throughout most of the seventeenth century. The third was the guerilla tactics of the Hindu Maratha warriors in the second half of the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries.

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