Mahmud Gawan

Mahmud Gawan was a Persian statesman who served as the chief minister, or Peshwa of the Bahmani Sultanate in India from 1458 and de facto ruler as prime minister from 1466 until his death in 1481. Mahmud Gawan, from the village of Gawan in Persia, was well-versed in Islamic theology, Persian, and the sciences and was a poet and prose writer of repute.