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5 unusual facts about Delhi Sultanate


Delhi Sultanate

Qutb-ud-din Aibak, a former slave (Mamluk-Cuman-Kipchak) of Muhammad Ghori, was the first sultan of Delhi and his dynasty managed to conquer large areas of northern India.

A slave of Cuman-Kipchak origin, he proclaimed independence after the death of his patron and ruled from Delhi.

Inam Kulathur

Inam Kulathur has been ruled, at different times, by the Early CholasEarly PandyasLater Cholas, Delhi SultanateMadurai Sultanate, Arcot Nawab and the British, prior to the formation of the Republic of India.

Medieval India

Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived dynasties

Muzaffar Alam

Professor Alam has taught courses on the history of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, and he has also worked closely with students on advanced Urdu and Persian literary and historical texts.


Ghurid dynasty

Out of the Ghurid state grew the Delhi Sultanate which established the Persian language as the lingua franca of the region – a status it retained until the fall of the Mughal Empire in the 19th century.

Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture

Confluence of different architectural styles had been attempted before during the mainly Turkic, Delhi Sultanate and Mughal periods.

After the disintegration of the Turkic Delhi Sultanate, rulers of individual states established their own rule and hence their own architectural styles, which was heavily influenced by local styles.

Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut

Jamal-ud-Din Yaqut (also Jamaluddin Yakut) was an African Siddi slave-turned-nobleman who was a close confidante of Razia Sultana, the first female monarch of the Delhi Sultanate in India, and who is speculated to have been her lover.

Khizr Khan

Khizr Khan ibn Malik Sulaiman (reigned 1414–21) was the founder of the Sayyid dynasty, the ruling dynasty of the Delhi sultanate, in northern India soon after the invasion of Timur and the fall of the Tughlaq dynasty.

Madurai Sultanate

The sultanate was proclaimed in 1335 when the then viceroy of Madurai, Jalaluddin Ahsan Khan declared his independence from the Delhi Sultanate.

Sali Noyan

Due to the internal conflicts of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mamluk Sultan Nasir ud din Mahmud's brother, Jalal al-Din Masud, fled into Mongol territory traveled to the Mongol capital at Karakorum in 1248.

Wardha district

Later on, Wardha was ruled by Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Yadavas, Delhi Sultanate, Bahamani Sultanate, Muslim ruler of Berar, Gonds and Maratha.


see also

Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah

Bahram Khan recaptured Sonargaon for the Delhi Sultanate and he became the governor of Sonargaon.

Pakhli

During Akbar's era, Sultan Hussain Khan of Pakhli revolted against him on the basis that the Delhi Sultanate was interfering into Pakhli's internal affairs.

Sayyid dynasty

The central authority of the Delhi Sultanate had been fatally weakened by the successive invasion of Timur and his sack of Delhi in 1398.

Ziauddin Barani

Ziauddin Barani (1285–1357) was a Muslim historian and political thinker who lived in Delhi Sultanate (present day North India) during Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firuz Shah's reign.