Mahmud Gawan also tried to settle the northern frontiers of the kingdom.
has recorded that Mohammad Gawan's mansion was guarded by a hundred armed men
Gawan had built a large madarsa at the centre
of Bidar with his own money.
Mahmud Gawan was a Persian merchant who arrived in the Bahamani
Sultanate at around 1453 AD.
Mahmud Gawan served the state most faithfully
and enlarged the kingdom to an extent never achieved before.
When the young Sultan died in 1463 and his brother Muhammad III aged 9 succeeded him,
Mahmud Gawan served as the prime minister.
A Russian traveller, Athanasius Nikitin, who visited Bidar,
has recorded that Mohammad Gawan's mansion was guarded by a hundred armed men
and ten torchbearers.
Khwaja Mahmud Gilani, from the village of Gawan in Persia, was well-versed in Islamic theology,
Persian language and Mathematics and was a poet and a prose writer of repute.