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The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The sultanate was established around c. 1206–1211 in the former Ghurid territories in India.
Delhi has been an important political centre of India as the capital of several empires. [1] The recorded history of Delhi begins with the 8th century Tomar Rajput dynasty. [2] [3] It is considered to be a city built, destroyed and rebuilt several times, as outsiders who successfully invaded the Indian subcontinent would ransack the existing capital city in Delhi, and those who came to conquer ...
[1] [2] Following the conquest of India by the Ghurids, five unrelated heterogeneous dynasties ruled over the Delhi Sultanate sequentially: the Mamluk dynasty (1206–1290), the Khalji dynasty (1290–1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1414), [3] the Sayyid dynasty (1414–1451), and the Lodi dynasty (1451–1526).
Amid the turmoil caused by the end of the Khalji dynasty in Delhi, Hammir Singh regained control of whole of Mewar including Chittorgarh. He evicted Maladeva's son Jaiza, the Chauhan vassal of the Delhi Sultanate, from Mewar and established the Sisodiya dynasty in Mewar. Battle of Singoli (1336) Maharana Hammir. Junsi Kachhwaha; Unknown Mewar ...
Delhi Sultanate was an Islamic empire based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for 320 years (1206-1526). Following the invasion of Southern Asia by the Ghurid dynasty, Qutbuddin Aibak Was the first sultan of Delhi Sultanate, five dynasties ruled over the Delhi Sultanate sequentially:the Mamluk dynasty (1206-1290), the Khalji dynasty (1290-1320), the Tughlaq ...
Qutb ud-Din Aibak establishes slave dynasty (Mamluk) later to be known as Delhi Sultanate, beginning 320 years rule over India (1206–1526). 1206 Raja Prithu defeats Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji , destroying his army of 12,000 with only about 100 survivors.
English: Maximum extent of the Delhi Sultanate under Khalji dynasty. Legend: Khalji territory: Dark green; Khalji vassals: Light green; Source for the boundaries: A Historical Atlas of South Asia (1992) edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Plate V.2 map C (p. 38)
Following the reign of the Sayyids, the Afghan [6] [a] [7] [8] Lodi dynasty gained the sultanate. Bahlul Khan Lodi (r. 1451–1489) was the nephew and son-in-law of Malik Sultan Shah Lodi, the governor of Sirhind in , India and succeeded him as the governor of Sirhind during the reign of Sayyid dynasty ruler Muhammad Shah. Muhammad Shah raised ...