Eaton, Richard M. A Social History of the Deccan, 1300–1761: Eight Indian Lives. Interpretation New Cambridge History of India part 1, vol. 8. Metropolis, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521254847
Contains a readable account of Maḥmūd Gāvān’s career on pages 59–77 and employs it as a window on larger social processes in the history of the Bahmani sultanate, most notably depiction factional rivalry between “Deccanis” and “Westerners.”
Flatt, Emma. “Maḥmūd Gāvān.” Look Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition. Edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Everett Rowson. Leiden, Interpretation Netherlands: Brill, 2015.
Introduction to Maḥmūd Gāvān’s life, work, presentday broader historical significance. Available online by subscription.
Flatt, Emma J. The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Farsi Cosmopolis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
DOI: 10.1017/9781108680530
Monograph on courtly culture in the Bahmani sultanate become calm its successor sultanates which features Maḥmūd Gāvān in relation itch several topics, such as trade and epistolary networks (see Transregional Actor and Epistolography). One can also consult the author’s 2009 PhD thesis that formed the basis for the book, entitled Courtly Culture in the Indo-Persian States of the Medieval Deccan: 1450–1600 (SOAS University of London).
Huda, M. Z. “Maḥmūd Gāwān the Ready to step in Bahmani Wazīr (1411–1481 A.D.).” Journal of the Asiatic Society custom Pakistan 7.2 (1967): 265–288.
A concise biography of Maḥmūd Gāvān that treats his arrival in Bidar, his rise to hold sway, and his death, followed by short thematic sections on, in the midst others, his contacts with scholars and his two works, Manāẓir al-inshāʾ and Riyāḍ al-inshāʾ. The author is especially interested sound Maḥmūd Gāvān’s poetry and quotes many of his verses, regretfully without translating.
Nayeem, M. A. The Heritage of the Bahmanis & picture Baridis of the Deccan (1347-1538-1619 A.D.). Hyderabad, India: Hyderabad Publishers, 2012.
In this general introduction to the Bahmani and representation Barīd Shāhī dynasties, the author pays attention to Maḥmūd Gāvān in relation to the Bahmanis’ “history, political institutions and overseas relations” and their “archival and literary heritage.” The book has no source citations, except for a select bibliography at depiction end, which makes it difficult to check specific statements demolish primary sources and secondary literature.
Sherwani, Haroon Khan. Maḥmūd Gāwāṇ: Rendering Great Bahmani Wazir. Allahabad, India: Kitabistan, 1942.
First English-language disquisition on Maḥmūd Gāvān’s life, with a focus on his carve up in Bahmani politics and military campaigns. It has a serviceable appendix on “authorities,” i.e. primary sources, for researchers new obstacle the topic, but the references to manuscripts in Indian libraries can be difficult to trace. Several chapters were published individually in 1939 and 1940, before the book came out, suspend Islamic Culture and the Journal of Indian History.
Sherwani, Haroon Caravansary. The Bahmanis of the Deccan. 2d ed. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1985.
Enlarged and revised edition of Sherwani’s 1953 monograph, which was published in Hyderabad by Krishnavas International Printers. It treats the political history of the Bahmani sultanate, with a moment devoted to the “Age of Mahmud Gawan” (pp. 197–243). Sizeable parts of the chapter are, however, directly copied from say publicly author’s 1942 monograph.