The Berar sultanate was an early modern Indian kingdom in the Deccan, ruled by the Imad Shahi dynasty.

On the establishment of the Bahmani Sultanate in the Deccan in 1347, Berar was constituted one of the five provinces into which their kingdom was divided, being governed by a tarafdar, with a separate army.

[citation needed] Imad-ul-Mulk was by birth a Kanarese Hindu, but had been captured as a boy in one of the expeditions against the Vijayanagara Empire and brought up as a Muslim.

[6] The next ruler, Darya, ascended the throne in 1530 and tried to align with Bijapur to prevent aggression from Ahmadnagar, but was unsuccessful.

[4] Early in his reign, the minor Burhan Imad Shah, who succeeded his father in 1562, was deposed by his minister and regent Tufail Khan, who assumed rule of the Sultanate.