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The Delhi Sultanate (دلی سلطنت), or Sulthanath-e-Hind (سلطنتِ ہند) / Sulthanath-e-Dilli (سلطنتِ دلی) refers to the various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India from 1210 to 1526. Several Turkic and Pashtun dynasties ruled from Delhi: the Slave dynasty (1206-90), the Khilji dynasty (1290-1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1413), the Sayyid dynasty (1414-51), and the Lodi (1451-1526).
During the last quarter of the twelfth century, Muhammad of Ghor invaded the Indo-Gangetic plain, conquering in succession Ghazni, Multan, Sindh, Lahore, and Delhi. Qutb-ud-din Aybak, one of his generals, proclaimed himself Sultan of Delhi and established the first dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, the Slave or Mamluk dynasty (mamluk means "slave") after Muhammad's death in 1206. The territory under control of the Sultans expanded rapidly. By mid-century, northern India from the Khyber Pass to Bengal was under control of the Sultanate, although the northwest was contested with the Mongols. Iltutmish (1210-35), and Balban (1266-87) were among the dynasty's most well-known rulers. Faced with revolts by conquered territories and rival families, the Mamluk dynasty came to an end in 1290.
The Khilji or Khalji dynasty, who had established themselves as rulers of Bengal in the time of Muhammad Ghori, took control of the empire in a coup which eliminated the last of the Mamluks. The Khiljis conquered Gujarat and Malwa, and sent the first expeditions south of the Narmada River, as far south as Tamil Nadu. The Delhi Sultanate rule continued to extend into southern India, first by the Delhi Sultans, then by the breakaway Bahmani Sultanate of Gulbarga, and, after the breakup of the Bahmani state in 1518, by the five independent Deccan Sultanates. The kingdom of Vijayanagar united southern India and arrested the Delhi Sultanate's expansion for a time, until its eventual fall to the Deccan Sultanates in 1565.
In the first half of the 14th century the Sultanate introduced a monetary economy in the provinces (sarkars) and districts (parganas) that had been established and founded a network of market centers through which the traditional village economies were both exploited and stimulated and drawn into the wider culture. State revenues remained based on successful agriculture, which induced Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq (1325-51) to have village wells dug, offer seed to the peasants and to encourage cash crops like sugar cane (Braudel 1984, pp 96f, 512ff).
The Delhi Sultanate is the only Sultanate to stake a claim to possessing one of the few female rulers in India, Razia Sultan (1236-1240). While her reign was unfortunately short she is regarded well in the eyes of historians. The Princess Raziah Sultanah was very Popular and Intelligent than her Brothers. She was the very First Queen of the Muslim World in the Early Muslim History of Sub-Continent. She ruled from the east Delhi to the west Peshawar and from the North Kashmir to the South Multan. The Rebels of her Government killed her and her Husband Malik Altuniya.
The Sultans of Delhi enjoyed cordial, if superficial, relations with other Muslim rulers in the Near East but owed them no allegiance. The Sultans based their laws on the Qur'an and the sharia and permitted non-Muslim subjects to practice their religion only if they paid jizya or head tax. The Sultans ruled from urban centers—while military camps and trading posts provided the nuclei for towns that sprang up in the countryside. Perhaps the greatest contribution of the Sultanate was its temporary success in insulating the subcontinent from the potential devastation of the Mongol invasion from Central Asia in the thirteenth century.
The Sultanate ushered in a period of Indian cultural renaissance. The resulting "Indo-Muslim" fusion left lasting monuments in architecture, music, literature, and religion. The Sultanate suffered from the sacking of Delhi in 1398 by Timur (Tamerlane), and soon other independent Sultanates were established in Awadh, Bengal, Jaunpur, Gujarat and Malwa. The Delhi Sultanate revived briefly under the Lodhis before it was conquered by the Mughal emperor Babur in 1526.
Note: Islamic Empires in India (part of the History of South Asia series) has more information at Islamic Empires in India#Delhi Sultanate
Sultans of Delhi
Slave Dynasty (1206 - 1290)
- Qutb-ud-din Aybak (1206 - 1210)
- Aram Shah (1210 - 1211)
- Shams ud din Iltutmish (1211 - 1236)
- Rukn ud din Firuz (1236)
- Raziyyat ud din Sultana (1236 - 1240)
- Muiz ud din Bahram (1240 - 1242)
- Ala ud din Masud (1242 - 1246)
- Nasir ud din Mahmud (1246 - 1266)
- Ghiyas ud din Balban (1266 - 1286)
- Muiz ud din Qaiqabad (1286 - 1290)
- Kayumars (1290)
Khilji (Khalji) Dynasty (1290 - 1321)
- Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji (1290 - 1294)
- Ala ud din Khilji (1294 - 1316)
- Qutb ud din Mubarak Shah (1316 - 1321)
Tughlaq Dynasty (1321 - 1398)
- Ghiyas ud din Tughluq Shah I (1321 - 1325)
- Muhammad Shah II (1325 - 1351)
- Mahmud Ibn Muhammad ( March 1351)
- Firuz Shah Tughluq (1351 - 1388)
- Ghiyas ud din Tughluq II (1388 - 1389)
- Abu Baker (1389 - 1390)
- Nasir ud din Muhammad Shah III (1390 - 1393)
- Sikander Shah I ( March - April 1393)
- Mahmud Nasir ud din (Sultan Mahmud II) at Delhi (1393 - 1394)
- Nusrat Shah at Firuzabad (1394 - 1398)
Lodi Dynasty
- Daulat Khan (1413 - 1414)
Sayyid (Syed) Dynasty (1414 - 1451)
- Khidr Khan (1414 - 1421)
- Mubarrak Shah II (1421 - 1435)
- Muhammad Shah IV (1435 - 1445)
- Aladdin Alam Shah (1445 - 1451)
Lodhi (Lodi) Dynasty (1451 - 1526)
- Bahlul Khan Lodi (1451-1489)
- Sikandar Lodi (1489-1517)
- Ibrahim II (1517-1526)
1526-1540: Mughal rule
Suri Dynasty (1540 - 1555)
- Sher Shah (1540 - 1545)
- Islam Shah (1545 - 1553)
- Muhammad V (1553 - 1554)
- Firuz ( 29 April - 2 May 1554)
- Ibrahim III (1554 - 1554/5)
- Sikander Shah (1554/5 - 1555)
See also
- Islamic empires in India (part of the History of South Asia series) has more information at Islamic Empires in India#Delhi Sultanate
- List of Indian monarchs
ReferencesISBN links support NWE through referral fees
- This article contains material from the Library of Congress Country Studies, which are United States government publications in the public domain.
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- Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism, vol III : The perspective of the World. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992 printing ISBN 0520081161
Literature
- Elliot, Henry Miers. The History of India as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period. Adamant Media Corporation, 2006 ISBN 0543947262, v. 1. ISBN 0543947122, v. 2. ISBN 1402182120, v.3. ISBN 0543947181, v. 5. ISBN 0543947149, v.6. ISBN 0543947246, v. 7. ISBN 054394722X, v.8.
- Jackson, Peter. The Delhi Sultanate. A Political and Military History. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999 ISBN 0521404770
- Majumdar, R. C., ed. The History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume VI : The Delhi Sultanate, Volume VII : The Mughal Empire. Bombay : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1964-1977.
- Nizami, Khaliq Ahmad. Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India in the Thirteenth Century. Delhi : Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delli, 1974, 1978 printing. With a foreword by C. Collin Davies & an introd. by Mohd. Habib.
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