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Delhi Sultanate

February 15, 2024

Not to be confused with Sultanate of Deli.

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 320 years (1206–1526).[11][12][13] Following the invasion of South Asia by the Ghurid dynasty, five dynasties ruled over the Delhi Sultanate sequentially: the Mamluk dynasty (1206–1290), the Khalji dynasty (1290–1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1414), the Sayyid dynasty (1414–1451), and the Lodi dynasty (1451–1526). It covered large swaths of territory in modern-day India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as well as some parts of southern Nepal.[14]

Sultanate of Delhi
سلطنت دهلی (Persian)
Salṯanat-e-Dihlī
1206–1526
Flag of the Delhi Sultanate according to the contemporary Catalan Atlas (c. 1375).[1][2][3]
Delhi Sultanate at its greatest extent, under the Tughlaq dynasty, 1330–1335.[4][5]
StatusSultanate
Capital
Common languagesPersian (official and court language)[6]
Hindavi (semi-official between 1451 and 1526)[7]
Religion
State religion
Sunni Islam
Others
Hinduism (majority), Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism
GovernmentMonarchy
Sultan 
• 1206–1210
Qutubuddin Aibak (first)
• 1517–1526
Ibrahim Lodi (last)
Vizier 
• 1228–1235
Yaqut-i-Mustasimi (first)
• 1513–1526
Khwaja Jahan (last) [8]
LegislatureCorps of Forty (1211–1266)
Historical eraMedieval India
12 June 1206
21 April 1526
Area
• 1312.
3,200,000[10] km2 (1,200,000 sq mi)
CurrencyTaka
Today part ofBangladesh
India
Pakistan

The foundation of the Sultanate was laid by the Ghurid conqueror Muhammad Ghori who routed the Rajput Confederacy led by Ajmer ruler Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192 near Tarain, after suffering a reverse against them earlier.[15] As a successor to the Ghurid dynasty, the Delhi Sultanate was originally one among a number of principalities ruled by the Turkic slave-generals of Muhammad Ghori, including Taj al-Din Yildiz, Qutb al-Din Aibak, Bahauddin Tughril and Nasir ad-Din Qabacha, that had inherited and divided the Ghurid territories amongst themselves.[16] Khalji and Tughlaq rule ushered a new wave of rapid and ceaseless Muslim conquests deep into South India.[17][18][19] The sultanate finally reached the peak of its geographical reach during the Tughlaq dynasty, occupying most of the Indian subcontinent under Muhammad bin Tughluq. A major political transformation occurred across Northern India, triggered by Central Asian conqueror Tamerlane's devastating raid on Delhi in 1398, followed soon afterwards by the re-emergence of rival Hindu powers such as Vijayanagara and Mewar asserting independence, and new Muslim sultanates such as the Bengal and Bahmani Sultanates breaking off.[20][21] In 1526, Timurid ruler Babur invaded northern India and conquered the Sultanate, leading to its succession by the Mughal Empire.

The establishment of the Sultanate drew the Indian subcontinent more closely into international and multicultural Islamic social and economic networks,[22] as seen concretely in the development of the Hindustani language[23] and Indo-Islamic architecture.[24][25] It was also one of the few powers to repel attacks by the Mongols (from the Chagatai Khanate)[26] and saw the enthronment of one of the few female rulers in Islamic history, Razia Sultan, who reigned from 1236 to 1240.[27] Their treatment of Hindus is generally perceived to be favorable, as there was no mass forcible conversion and Hindu officials were readily accepted.[28] However, there were cases like Bakhtiyar Khalji's annexations, which involved a large-scale desecration of Hindu and Buddhist temples[29] and the destruction of universities and libraries.[30][31] Mongolian raids on West and Central Asia set the scene for centuries of migration of fleeing soldiers, intelligentsia, mystics, traders, artists, and artisans from those regions into the subcontinent, thereby establishing Islamic culture there.[32][33]

Name edit

Although conventionally named after its principal capital city, Delhi, the terminology applied to domains under Delhi Sultanate was often unspecified. It was called as "Empire of Delhi" (Persian: Mamalik-i-Delhi) by Juzjani and Barani while Ibn Batuta called the empire under Muhammad bin Tughlaq as "Hind and Sind". Delhi Sultanate was also known as "Empire of Hindustan" (Persian: Mamalik-i-Hindustan), a name which gained currency during the period.[34]

History edit

Background edit

See also: Mamluk and Turkic migration

The rise of the Delhi Sultanate in India was part of a wider trend affecting much of the Asian continent, including the whole of southern and western Asia: the influx of nomadic Turkic peoples from the Central Asian steppes. This can be traced back to the 9th century when the Islamic Caliphate began fragmenting in the Middle East, where Muslim rulers in rival states began enslaving non-Muslim nomadic Turks from the Central Asian steppes and raising many of them to become loyal army slaves called Mamluks. Soon, Turks were migrating to Muslim lands and becoming Islamicized. Many of the Turkic Mamluk slaves eventually rose up to become rulers, and conquered large parts of the Muslim world, establishing Mamluk Sultanates from Egypt to present-day Afghanistan, before turning their attention to the Indian subcontinent.[35]

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Main South Asian polities in 1175, on the eve of the Ghurid Empire invasion of the subcontinent. Orange line: Ghurid territorial conquests from 1175 to 1205, which led to the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate in 1206.[36][37]

It is also part of a longer trend predating the spread of Islam. Like other settled, agrarian societies in history, those in the Indian subcontinent have been attacked by nomadic tribes throughout its long history. In evaluating the impact of Islam on the subcontinent, one must note that the northwestern subcontinent was a frequent target of tribes raiding from Central Asia in the pre-Islamic era. In that sense, the Muslim intrusions and later Muslim invasions were not dissimilar to those of the earlier invasions during the 1st millennium.[38]

By 962 AD, Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms in South Asia faced a series of raids from Muslim armies from Central Asia.[39] Among them was Mahmud of Ghazni, the son of a Turkic Mamluk military slave,[40] who raided and plundered kingdoms in northern India from east of the Indus river to west of the Yamuna river seventeen times between 997 and 1030.[41] Mahmud of Ghazni raided the treasuries but retreated each time, only extending Islamic rule into western Punjab.[42][43]

The series of raids on northern and western Indian kingdoms by Muslim warlords continued after Mahmud of Ghazni.[44] The raids did not establish or extend the permanent boundaries of the Islamic kingdoms. In contrast, the Ghurid Sultan Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori (commonly known as Muhammad of Ghor) began a systematic war of expansion into northern India in 1173.[45] He sought to carve out a principality for himself and expand the Islamic world.[41][46] Muhammad of Ghor created a Sunni Islamic kingdom of his own extending east of the Indus river, and he thus laid the foundation for the Muslim kingdom called the Delhi Sultanate.[41] Some historians chronicle the Delhi Sultanate from 1192 due to the presence and geographical claims of Muhammad Ghori in South Asia by that time.[47]

Ghori was assassinated in 1206, by Ismāʿīlī Shia Muslims in some accounts or by Khokhars in others.[48] After the assassination, one of Ghori's slaves (or Mamluks), the Turkic Qutb al-Din Aibak, assumed power, becoming the first Sultan of Delhi.[41]

Dynasties edit

See also: List of sultans of Delhi and Sultans of Delhi Family trees

Mamluk dynasty (1206–1290) edit

Main article: Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)
 
Territory of the Delhi Mamluk Dynasty circa 1250.[49]

Qutb al-Din Aibak, a former slave of Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori, was the first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. Aibak was of Turkic Cuman-Kipchak origin, and due to his lineage, his dynasty is known as the Mamluk dynasty.[50] Aibak reigned as the Sultan of Delhi for four years, from 1206 to 1210. Aibak was praised by the contemporary and later accounts for his generosity and due to this was called with the sobriquet of Lakhbaksh. (giver of lakhs)[51]

After Aibak died, Aram Shah assumed power in 1210, but he was assassinated in 1211 by Aibak's son-in-law, Shams ud-Din Iltutmish.[52] Iltutmish's power was precarious, and a number of Muslim amirs (nobles) challenged his authority as they had been supporters of Qutb al-Din Aibak. After a series of conquests and brutal executions of opposition, Iltutmish consolidated his power.[53]

 
Tomb of Iltutmish (r. 1211–1236) in the Qutub Minar complex.

His rule was challenged a number of times, such as by Qubacha, and this led to a series of wars.[54] Iltutmish conquered Multan and Bengal from contesting Muslim rulers, as well as Ranthambore and Siwalik from the Hindu rulers. He also attacked, defeated, and executed Taj al-Din Yildiz, who asserted his rights as heir to Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad Ghori.[55] Iltutmish's rule lasted until 1236. Following his death, the Delhi Sultanate saw a succession of weak rulers, disputing Muslim nobility, assassinations, and short-lived tenures. Power shifted from Rukn ud-Din Firuz to Razia Sultana and others, until Ghiyas ud-Din Balban came to power and ruled from 1266 to 1287.[54][55] Ghiyasuddin Balban destroyed the power of the Corps of Forty, a council of 40 Turkic slaves who had played a role as kingmakers and had been independent of the Sultan. He was succeeded by 17-year-old Muiz ud-Din Qaiqabad, who appointed Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji as the commander of the army. Khalji assassinated Qaiqabad and assumed power in the Khalji Revolution, thus ending the Mamluk dynasty and starting the Khalji dynasty.

Qutb al-Din Aibak initiated the construction of the Qutub Minar but died before it was completed. It was later completed by his son-in-law, Iltutmish.[56] The Quwwat-ul-Islam (Might of Islam) Mosque was built by Aibak, now a UNESCO world heritage site.[57] The Qutub Minar Complex was expanded by Iltutmish, and later by Ala ud-Din Khalji in the early 14th century.[57][note 1] During the Mamluk dynasty, many nobles from Afghanistan and Persia migrated and settled in India, as West Asia came under Mongol siege.[59]

Khalji dynasty (1290–1320) edit

Main articles: Khalji Revolution and Khalji dynasty
See also: Mongol invasions of India
 
Territory controlled by Khalji dynasty circa 1320.[60]

The Khalji dynasty was of Turko-Afghan heritage.[61][62][63][64] They were originally Turkic, but due to their long presence in Afghanistan, they were treated by others as Afghan as they adopted some of Afghan habits and customs.[65][66]

The first ruler of the Khalji dynasty was Jalal ud-Din Firuz Khalji. He was around 70 years old at the time of his ascension, and was known as a mild-mannered, humble and kind monarch to the general public.[67][68] Jalal ud-Din Firuz ruled for 6 years before he was murdered in 1296 by Muhammad Salim of Samana, on the orders of his nephew and son-in-law Juna Muhammad Khalji,[69] who later came to be known as Ala ud-Din Khalji.[70]

Ala ud-Din began his military career as governor of Kara province, from where he led two raids on Malwa (1292) and Devagiri (1294) for plunder and loot. After his accession to the throne, expansions towards these kingdoms were renewed including Gujarat which was conquered by the Grand Vizier Nusrat Khan Jalesari,[71][72][73] the kingdom of Malwa by Ainul Mulk Multani,[74][75] as well as Rajputana.[76] However, these victories were cut short because of Mongol attacks and plunder raids from the northwest. The Mongols withdrew after plundering and stopped raiding northwest parts of the Delhi Sultanate.[77]

 
The Khaljis captured Jaisalmer Fort in Jaisalmer, Rajputana, in 1299.

After the Mongols withdrew, Ala ud-Din Khalji continued to expand the Delhi Sultanate into southern India with the help of Indian slave-generals such as Malik Kafur and Khusro Khan. They collected much war booty (anwatan) from those they defeated.[78][79] His commanders collected war spoils and paid ghanima (Arabic: الْغَنيمَة, a tax on spoils of war), which helped strengthen the Khalji rule. Among the spoils was the Warangal loot that included the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond.[80]

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The Delhi Sultanate and contemporary Asian polities circa 1320. Most of the Asian continent was occupied by the Mongol Empire by that time, with Turkic polities occupying South and Western Asia, as far as Egypt where they established the Mamluk Sultanate

Ala ud-Din Khalji changed tax policies, raising agriculture taxes from 20% to 50% (payable in grain and agricultural produce), eliminating payments and commissions on taxes collected by local chiefs, banned socialization among his officials as well as inter-marriage between noble families to help prevent any opposition forming against him, and he cut salaries of officials, poets, and scholars.[69] These tax policies and spending controls strengthened his treasury to pay the keep of his growing army; he also introduced price controls on all agriculture produce and goods in the kingdom, as well as controls on where, how, and by whom these goods could be sold. Markets called "shahana-i-mandi" were created.[81] Muslim merchants were granted exclusive permits and monopoly in these "mandis" to buy and resell at official prices. No one other than these merchants could buy from farmers or sell in cities. Those found violating these "mandi" rules were severely punished, often by mutilation.[82][83] Taxes collected in the form of grain were stored in the kingdom's storage. During famines that followed, these granaries ensured sufficient food for the army.[69]

 
The Alai Darwaza, completed in 1311 during the Khalji dynasty.

Historians note Ala ud-Din Khalji as being a tyrant. Anyone Ala ud-Din suspected of being a threat to this power was killed along with the women and children of that family. He grew to eventually distrust the majority of his nobles and favored only a handful of his own slaves and family. In 1298, between 15,000 and 30,000 Mongols near Delhi, who had recently converted to Islam, were slaughtered in a single day, due to a mutiny during an invasion of Gujarat.[84] He is also known for his cruelty against kingdoms he defeated in battle.

After Ala ud-Din's death in 1316, his eunuch general Malik Kafur, who was born to a Hindu family but converted to Islam, assumed de facto power and was supported by non-Khalaj nobles like Kamal al-Din Gurg. However he lacked the support of the majority of Khalaj nobles who had him assassinated, hoping to take power for themselves.[69] However, the new ruler had the killers of Kafur executed.

The last Khalji ruler was Ala ud-Din Khalji's 18-year-old son Qutb ud-Din Mubarak Shah Khalji, who ruled for four years before he was killed by Khusro Khan, another slave-general with Hindu origins, who reverted from Islam and favoured his Hindu Baradu military clan in the nobility. Khusro Khan's reign lasted only a few months, when Ghazi Malik, later to be called Ghiyath al-Din Tughlaq, defeated him with the help of Khokhar tribesmen and assumed power in 1320, thus ending the Khalji dynasty and starting the Tughlaq dynasty.[59][84]

Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1413) edit

Main article: Tughlaq dynasty
 
Territory of the Tughlaq dynasty circa 1330–1335, corresponding to the maximum extent of the Delhi Sultanate.[4]

The Tughlaq dynasty was a Turko-Mongol[85] or Turkic[5] Muslim dynasty, which lasted from 1320 to 1413. The first ruler was Ghiyath al-Din Tughlaq. Ghiyath al-Din ruled for five years and built a town near Delhi named Tughlaqabad.[86] His son Juna Khan and general Ainul Mulk Multani conquered Warangal in south India.[87] According to some historians such as Vincent Smith,[88] he was killed by his son Juna Khan, who then assumed power in 1325.

Juna Khan renamed himself as Muhammad bin Tughlaq and ruled for 26 years.[89] During his rule, Delhi Sultanate reached its peak in terms of geographical reach, covering most of the Indian subcontinent.[90]

Muhammad bin Tughlaq was an intellectual, with extensive knowledge of the Quran, Fiqh, poetry and other fields. He was also deeply suspicious of his kinsmen and wazirs (ministers), extremely severe with his opponents, and took decisions that caused economic upheaval. For example, he ordered minting of coins from base metals with face value of silver coins - a decision that failed because ordinary people minted counterfeit coins from base metal they had in their houses and used them to pay taxes and jizya.[90][88]

 
Depiction of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, founder of the Tughlaq dynasty, in the Basātin al-uns by Ikhtisān-i Dabir, a member of the Tughluq court and an ambassador to Iran. Ca.1410 Jalayirid copy of 1326 lost original.[91]

Muhammad bin Tughlaq chose the city of Deogiri in present-day Indian state of Maharashtra (renaming it Daulatabad), as the second administrative capital of the Delhi Sultanate.[92] He ordered a forced migration of the Muslim population of Delhi, including his royal family, the nobles, Syeds, Sheikhs and 'Ulema to settle in Daulatabad. The purpose of transferring the entire Muslim elite to Daulatabad was to enroll them in his mission of world conquest. He saw their role as propagandists who would adapt Islamic religious symbolism to the rhetoric of empire, and that the Sufis could by persuasion bring many of the inhabitants of the Deccan to become Muslim.[93] Tughluq cruelly punished the nobles who were unwilling to move to Daulatabad, seeing their non-compliance of his order as equivalent to rebellion. According to Ferishta, when the Mongols arrived to Punjab, the Sultan returned the elite back to Delhi, although Daulatabad remained as an administrative centre.[94] One result of the transfer of the elite to Daulatabad was the hatred of the nobility to the Sultan, which remained in their minds for a long time.[95] The other result was that he managed to create a stable Muslim elite and result in the growth of the Muslim population of Daulatabad who did not return to Delhi,[90] without which the rise of the Bahmanid kingdom to challenge Vijayanagara would not have been possible.[96] These were the Urdu-speaking community of North Indian Muslims.[97] Muhammad bin Tughlaq's adventures in the Deccan region also marked campaigns of destruction and desecration temples, for example, the Swayambhu Shiva Temple and the Thousand Pillar Temple.[31]

Revolts against Muhammad bin Tughlaq began in 1327, continued over his reign, and over time the geographical reach of the Sultanate shrunk. The Vijayanagara Empire originated in southern India as a direct response to attacks from the Delhi Sultanate.,[98] and liberated south India from the Delhi Sultanate's rule.[99] In the 1330s, Muhammad bin Tughlaq ordered an invasion of China, sending part of his forces over the Himalayas. However, they were defeated by the Kangra State.[100] During his reign, state revenues collapsed from his policies such as the base metal coins from 1329 to 1332. Famines, widespread poverty, and rebellion grew across the kingdom. In 1338 his own nephew rebelled in Malwa, whom he attacked, caught, and flayed alive.[101][102] By 1339, the eastern regions under local Muslim governors and southern parts led by Hindu kings had revolted and declared independence from the Delhi Sultanate. Muhammad bin Tughlaq did not have the resources or support to respond to the shrinking kingdom.[103] The historian Walford chronicled Delhi and most of India faced severe famines during Muhammad bin Tughlaq's rule in the years after the base metal coin experiment.[104][105] In 1335, Jalaluddin Ahsan Khan, a Sayyid native of Kaithal in North India, revolted and founded the Madurai Sultanate in South India.[106][107][108] By 1347, the Bahmani Sultanate had become independent through the rebellion of Ismail Mukh. It became a competing Muslim kingdom in the Deccan region of South Asia, founded by Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah.[39][109][110][111]

 
 
The Tughlaq dynasty is remembered for its architectural patronage, such as the construction of Firoz Shah Kotla. It reused old Buddhists pillars erected by Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE, such as the Delhi-Topra pillar. The Sultanate initially wanted to use the pillars to make mosque minarets. Firuz Shah Tughlaq decided otherwise and had them installed near mosques.[112] The meaning of the Brahmi script on the pillars (the Edicts of Ashoka) was unknown in Firuz Shah's time.[113][114]

Muhammad bin Tughlaq died in 1351 while trying to chase and punish people in Gujarat who were rebelling against the Delhi Sultanate.[103] He was succeeded by Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1351–1388), who tried to regain the old kingdom, boundary by waging a war with Bengal for 11 months in 1359. However, Bengal did not fall. Firuz Shah ruled for 37 years. His reign was marked with prosperity much of which was due to the wise and capable Grand Vizier, Khan-i-Jahan Maqbul, a South Indian Telugu Muslim.[115][116] His reign attempted to stabilize the food supply and reduce famines by commissioning an irrigation canal from the Yamuna river. An educated sultan, Firuz Shah left a memoir.[117] In it he wrote that he banned the practice of torture, such as amputations, tearing out of eyes, sawing people alive, crushing people's bones as punishment, pouring molten lead into throats, setting people on fire, driving nails into hands and feet, among others.[118] He also wrote that he did not tolerate attempts by Rafawiz Shia Muslim and Mahdi sects from proselytizing people into their faith, nor did he tolerate Hindus who tried to rebuild temples that his armies had destroyed.[119] Firuz Shah Tughlaq also lists his accomplishments to include converting Hindus to Sunni Islam by announcing an exemption from taxes and jizya for those who convert, and by lavishing new converts with presents and honours.[120][121][122] He also vastly expanded the number of slaves in his service and those of Muslim nobles, who were converted to Islam, taught to read and memorize the Quran, and employed in many offices especially in the military, out of which he was able to amass a large army.[123] These slaves, who were Indian Muslims, were known as the Ghulaman-i-Firuz Shahi, and became an elite guard which later became influential in the state.[124][125] The reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq was marked by reduction in extreme forms of torture, elimination of favours to select parts of society, but also increased intolerance and persecution of targeted groups,[118] the latter of which resulting in conversion of significant parts of the population to Islam.[126]

 
A base metal coin of Muhammad bin Tughlaq that led to an economic collapse.

The death of Firuz Shah Tughlaq created anarchy and disintegration of the kingdom. Firuz Shah's successor, Ghiyath-ud-Din Shah II was young and inexperienced, gave himself up to wine and pleasure. The nobles rose up against him and killed the Sultan and his vizier, and installed Abu Bakr Shah on the throne.[127] However, the old Ghulaman-i-Firuz Shahi turned against Abu Bakr, who fled, and on their invitation Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad Shah was installed on the throne.[128] The anamalous institution of the Ghulaman-i-Firuz Shahi became a corrupting influence on the successive Sultans following Firuz Shah.[129] The last rulers of this dynasty both called themselves Sultan from 1394 to 1397: Nasir ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq, the grandson of Firuz Shah Tughlaq who ruled from Delhi, and Nasir ud-Din Nusrat Shah Tughlaq, another relative of Firuz Shah Tughlaq who ruled from Firozabad, which was a few miles from Delhi.[130] The battle between the two relatives continued until Timur's invasion in 1398. Timur, also known as Tamerlane in Western scholarly literature, was the Turkicized Mongol ruler of the Timurid Empire. He became aware of the weakness and quarreling of the rulers of the Delhi Sultanate, so he marched with his army to Delhi, plundering and killing all the way.[131][132] Estimates for the massacre by Timur in Delhi range from 100,000 to 200,000 people.[133][134] Timur had no intention of staying in or ruling India. He looted the lands he crossed, then plundered and burnt Delhi. Over fifteen days, Timur and his army raged a massacre.[135][136] Then he collected wealth, captured women, and enslaved people (particularly skilled artisans), and returning with this loot to Samarkand. The people and lands within the Delhi Sultanate were left in a state of anarchy, chaos, and pestilence.[130] Nasir ud-Din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq, who had fled to Gujarat during Timur's invasion, returned and nominally ruled as the last ruler of Tughlaq dynasty, as a puppet of various factions at the court.[137]

Sayyid dynasty (1414–1450) edit

Main article: Sayyid dynasty
 
Territories of the Sayyid Dynasty.[138]

The Sayyid dynasty was founded by Khizr Khan and it ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1415 to 1451.[39] Members of the dynasty derived their title, Sayyid, or the descendants of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, based on the claim that they belonged to his lineage through his daughter Fatima.[139] However, according to Richard M. Eaton and Simon Digby, Khizr Khan was a Punjabi chieftain from Khokhār clan.[140][141] The Timurid invasion and plunder had left the Delhi Sultanate in shambles, and little is known about the rule by the Sayyid dynasty. Annemarie Schimmel notes the first ruler of the dynasty as Khizr Khan, who assumed power as a vassal of the Timurid Empire. His authority was questioned even by those near Delhi. His successor was Mubarak Khan, who renamed himself Mubarak Shah, discontinued his father's nominal allegiance to Timur and unsuccessfully tried to regain lost territories in Punjab from Khokhar warlords.[137][142]

 
The tomb of Muhammad Shah at Lodi Gardens, New Delhi.

With the power of the Sayyid dynasty faltering, Islam's history on the Indian subcontinent underwent a profound change, according to Schimmel.[137] The previously dominant Sunni sect of Islam became diluted, alternate Muslim sects such as Shia rose, and new competing centers of Islamic culture took roots beyond Delhi.

In course of the late Sayyid dynasty, the Delhi Sultanate shrank until it became a minor power. By the time of the last Sayyid ruler, Alam Shah (whose name translated to "king of the world"), this resulted in a common northern Indian witticism, according to which the "kingdom of the king of the world extends from Delhi to Palam", i.e. merely 13 kilometres (8.1 mi). Historian Richard M. Eaton noted that this saying showcased how the "once-mighty empire had literally become a joke".[143] The Sayyid dynasty was displaced by the Lodi dynasty in 1451, however, resulting in a resurgence of the Delhi Sultanate.[143]

Lodi dynasty (1451–1526) edit

Main article: Lodi dynasty
 
Territory of the Lodi Sultanate (1451-1526).[144]

The Lodi dynasty was an Afghan, or Turco-Afghan dynasty,[a] related to the Pashtun (Afghan) Lodi tribe.[146][147] The founder of the dynasty, Bahlul Khan Lodi, was a Khalji of the Lodi clan.[148] He started his reign by attacking the Muslim Jaunpur Sultanate to expand the influence of the Delhi Sultanate, and was partially successful through a treaty. Thereafter, the region from Delhi to Varanasi (then at the border of Bengal province), was back under influence of Delhi Sultanate.

 
Bada Gumbad, Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi.

After Bahlul Lodi died, his son Nizam Khan assumed power, renamed himself Sikandar Lodi and ruled from 1489 to 1517.[149] One of the better known rulers of the dynasty, Sikandar Lodi expelled his brother Barbak Shah from Jaunpur, installed his son Jalal Khan as the ruler, then proceeded east to make claims on Bihar. The Muslim governors of Bihar agreed to pay tribute and taxes, but operated independent of the Delhi Sultanate. Sikandar Lodi led a campaign of destruction of temples, particularly around Mathura. He also moved his capital and court from Delhi to Agra,[150] an ancient Hindu city that had been destroyed during the plunder and attacks of the early Delhi Sultanate period. Sikandar thus erected buildings with Indo-Islamic architecture in Agra during his rule, and the growth of Agra continued during the Mughal Empire, after the end of the Delhi Sultanate.[151][152]

Sikandar Lodi died a natural death in 1517, and his second son Ibrahim Lodi assumed power. Ibrahim did not enjoy the support of Afghan and Persian nobles or regional chiefs.[153] Ibrahim attacked and killed his elder brother Jalal Khan, who was installed as the governor of Jaunpur by his father and had the support of the amirs and chiefs.[151] Ibrahim Lodi was unable to consolidate his power, and after Jalal Khan's death, the governor of Punjab, Daulat Khan Lodi, reached out to the Mughal Babur and invited him to attack the Delhi Sultanate.[154] Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi in the Battle of Panipat in 1526. The death of Ibrahim Lodi ended the Delhi Sultanate, and the Mughal Empire replaced it.[155]

Government and politics edit

The historian Peter Jackson explains in The New Cambridge History of Islam: "The elite of the early Delhi sultanate comprised overwhelmingly first generation immigrants from Persia and Central Asia: Persians (‘Tājīks’), Turks, Ghūrīs and also Khalaj from the hot regions (garmsīr) of modern Afghanistan".[156]

Political system edit

Medieval scholars such as Isami and Barani suggested that the prehistory of the Delhi Sultanate lay in the Ghaznavid state and that its ruler, Mahmud Ghaznavi, provided the foundation and inspiration integral in the making of the Delhi regime. The Mongol and infidel Hindus were the great "Others" in these narratives and the Persianate and class conscious, aristocratic virtues of the ideal state were creatively memorialized in the Ghaznavid state, now the templates for the Delhi Sultanate. Cast within a historical narrative it allowed for a more self-reflective, linear rooting of the Sultanate in the great traditions of Muslim statecraft.[157] Over time, successive Muslim dynasties created a "centralized structure in the Persian tradition whose task was to mobilize human and material resources for the ongoing armed struggle against both Mongol and Hindu infidels".[158] The monarch was not the Sultan of the Hindus or of, say, the people of Haryana, rather in the eyes of the Sultanate's chroniclers, the Muslims constituted what in more recent times would be termed a "Staatsvolk". For many Muslim observers, the ultimate justification for any ruler within the Islamic world was the protection and advancement of the faith. For the Sultans, as for their Ghaznavid and Ghurid predecessors, this entailed the suppression of heterodox Muslims, and Firuz Shah attached some importance to the fact that he had acted against the ashab-i ilhad-u ibahat (deviators and latitudinarians). It also involved plundering, and extorting tribute from, independent Hindu principalities.[159] Firuz Shah, who finally believed that India was a Muslim country,[160] declared that "no zimmi living in a Musalman country might dare to act".[161]

The Hindu polytheists who submitted to Islamic rule qualified as "protected peoples" according to the wide spectrum of the educated Muslim community within the subcontinent. The balance of the evidence is that in the latter half of the fourteenth century, if not before, the jizyah was definitely levied as a discriminatory tax on non-Muslims, although even then it is difficult to see how such a measure could have been enforced outside the principal centres of Muslim authority.[162] The Delhi Sultanate also continued the governmental conventions of the previous Hindu polities, claiming paramountcy of some of its subjects rather than exclusive supreme control. Accordingly, it did not interfere with the autonomy and military of certain conquered Hindu rulers, and freely included Hindu vassals and officials.[12]

Economic policy and administration edit

See also: Market reforms of Alauddin Khalji
 
Coin of Ghiyath al-Din 'Iwad, Governor of Bengal, AH 614-616 AD 1217–1220. Struck in the name of Shams al-Din Iltutmish, Sultan of Dehli.

The economic policy of the Delhi Sultanate was characterized by greater government involvement in the economy relative to the Classical Hindu dynasties, and increased penalties for private businesses that broke government regulations. Alauddin Khalji replaced the private markets with four centralized government-run markets, appointed a "market controller", and implemented strict price controls[163] on all kinds of goods, "from caps to socks; from combs to needles; from vegetables, soups, sweetmeats to chapatis" (according to Ziauddin Barani [c. 1357][164]). The price controls were inflexible even during droughts.[165] Capitalist investors were completely banned from participating in the horse trade,[166] animal and slave brokers were forbidden from collecting commissions,[167] and private merchants were eliminated from all animal and slave markets.[167] Bans were instituted against hoarding[168] and regrating,[169] granaries were nationalized[168] and limits were placed on the amount of grain that could be used by cultivators for personal use.[170]

Various licensing rules were imposed. Registration of merchants was required,[171] and expensive goods such as certain fabrics were deemed "unnecessary" for the general public and required a permit from the state to be purchased. These licenses were issued to amirs, maliks, and other important persons in government.[167] Agricultural taxes were raised to 50%.

Traders regarded the regulations as burdensome, and violations were severely punished, leading to further resentment among the traders.[164] A network of spies was instituted to ensure the implementation of the system; even after price controls were lifted after Khalji's death, Barani claims that the fear of his spies remained, and that people continued to avoid trading in expensive commodities.[172]

Social policies edit

 
Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq leading his troops in the capture of the city of Tirhut in 1324, from Basātin al-uns by Ikhtisān-i Dabir, a member of the Tughluq court. Ca.1410 Jalayirid copy of 1326 lost original. Istanbul, Topkapi Palace Museum Library, Ms. R.1032.[173]

The sultanate enforced Islamic religious prohibitions of anthropomorphic representations in art.[174]

Military edit

The army of the Delhi sultans initially consisted of nomadic Turkic Mamluk military slaves belonging to Muhammad of Ghor.

The nucleus of this south-east Asian sultanate military were the Turco-Afghani regular units named Wajih, which were composed of elite household cavalry archers who came from slave backgrounds.[175] A major military contribution of the Delhi Sultanate were their successful campaigns repelling the Mongol Empire's invasions of India, which could have been devastating for the Indian subcontinent, like the Mongol invasions of China, Persia and Europe. Were it not for the Delhi Sultanate, it is possible that the Mongol Empire may have been successful in invading India.[35] The strength of the armies changes according to time.

Economy edit

See also: Economic history of India

Some historians argue that the Delhi Sultanate was responsible for making India more multicultural and cosmopolitan. The establishment of the Delhi Sultanate in India has been compared to the expansion of the Mongol Empire, and called "part of a larger trend occurring throughout much of Eurasia, in which nomadic people migrated from the steppes of Inner Asia and became politically dominant".[22]

According to Angus Maddison, between the years 1000 and 1500, India's GDP, of which the sultanates represented a significant part, grew nearly 8% to $60.5 billion in 1500. Though the overall the percentage of the GDP share reduced from 33% to 22% [176] According to Maddison's estimates, India's population grew from 85million in 1200 to 101 million in 1500 AD in the time period.[177]

 
Transportation of the Delhi-Topra pillar to Delhi. Sirat i-Firuz Shahi, 14th century illustration.[178]

The Delhi Sultanate period coincided with a more use of mechanical technology in the Indian subcontinent. India previously already had highly sophisticated agriculture, food crops, textiles, medicine, minerals, and metals, later on Central Asian technique were introduced in the subcontinent [179] there are plentiful evidence of water wheels existing in India prior to the Delhi Sultanate as described by the various Chinese monks and Arabs travellers and writers in their books .[180][181][note 2] Later, Mughal emperor Babur provided a description on the use of water-wheels in the Delhi Sultanate.[186]

According to historians Arnold Pacey and Irfan Habib, the spinning wheel was introduced to India from Iran during the Delhi Sultanate.[187] Smith and Cothren suggested that it was invented in India during the latter half of the first millennium,[188] but Pacey and Habib said these early references to cotton spinning do not clearly identify a wheel, but more likely refer to hand spinning.[187] The earliest unambiguous reference to a spinning wheel in India is dated to 1350.[187] The worm gear roller cotton gin was invented in the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries; Habib states that the development may likely occurred in peninsular India, before becoming more widespread across India during the Mughal era.[189] The incorporation of the crank handle in the cotton gin may have appeared sometime during the late Delhi Sultanate or the early Mughal Empire.[190]

India and China has connections throughout the thousands of years of history. Paper had already reached some parts of India as early as the 6th or 7th century,[191][192][193] initially through Chinese travellers and the ancient silk road which India was very well connected with. Earlier some historians believed that paper failed to catch on as palmyra leaves and birch bark remained far more popular but this theory was descredited later on.[194][195] [196] [197] On the other hand, paper may have arrived in Bengal from a separate route, as 15th century Chinese traveler Ma Huan remarked that Bengali paper was white and made from "bark of a tree" similar to the Chinese method of papermaking (as opposed to the Middle-Eastern method of using rags and waste material), suggesting a direct route from China for the arrival of paper in Bengal and paper was already very well established and widespread in that part of the subcontinent .[197]

[197]

Society edit

Demographics edit

See also: Demographics of India: History

According to one set of the very uncertain estimates of modern historians, the total Indian population had largely been stagnant at 75 million during the Middle Kingdoms era from 1 AD to 1000 AD. During the Medieval Delhi Sultanate era from 1000 to 1500, India as a whole experienced lasting population growth for the first time in a thousand years, with its population increasing nearly 50% to 110 million by 1500 AD.[198][199]

Culture edit

See also: Indo-Persian culture
 
Decorative reliefs, Alai Darwaza, 1311.

While the Indian subcontinent has had invaders from Central Asia since ancient times, what made the Muslim invasions different is that unlike the preceding invaders who assimilated into the prevalent social system, the successful Muslim conquerors retained their Islamic identity and created new legal and administrative systems that challenged and usually in many cases superseded the existing systems of social conduct and ethics, even influencing the non-Muslim rivals and common masses to a large extent, though the non-Muslim population was left to their own laws and customs.[200][201] They also introduced new cultural codes that in some ways were very different from the existing cultural codes. This led to the rise of a new Indian culture which was mixed in nature, different from ancient Indian culture. The overwhelming majority of Muslims in India were Indian natives converted to Islam. This factor also played an important role in the synthesis of cultures.[202]

The Hindustani language (Hindi/Urdu) began to emerge in the Delhi Sultanate period, developed from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhramsha vernaculars of North India. Amir Khusro, who lived in the 13th century CE during the Delhi Sultanate period in North India, used a form of Hindustani, which was the lingua franca of the period, in his writings and referred to it as Hindavi.[23]

The officers, the Sultans, Khans, Maliks and the soldiers wore the Islamic qabas dress in the style of Khwarezm, which were tucked in the middle of the body, while the turban and kullah were common headwear. The turbans were wrapped around the kullah(caps) and the feet were covered with red boots. The Wazirs and Katibs also dressed like the soldiers, except they did not use belts, and often let down a piece of cloth in front of them in the manner of the Sufis. The judges and the learned men wore ample gowns (farajiyat) and an Arabic garment(durra).[203]

Architecture edit

Main article: Indo-Islamic architecture
 
The Qutb Minar (left, begun c. 1200) next to the Alai Darwaza gatehouse (1311); Qutb Complex in Delhi.[57]

The start of the Delhi Sultanate in 1206 under Qutb al-Din Aibak introduced a large Islamic state to India, using Central Asian styles.[204] The types and forms of large buildings required by Muslim elites, with mosques and tombs much the most common, were very different from those previously built in India. The exteriors of both were very often topped by large domes, and made extensive use of arches. Both of these features were hardly used in Hindu temple architecture and other indigenous Indian styles. Both types of building essentially consist of a single large space under a high dome, and completely avoid the figurative sculpture so important to Hindu temple architecture.[205]

The important Qutb Complex in Delhi was begun under Muhammad of Ghor, by 1199, and continued under Qutb al-Din Aibak and later sultans. The Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, now a ruin, was the first structure. Like other early Islamic buildings it re-used elements such as columns from destroyed Hindu and Jain temples, including one on the same site whose platform was reused. The style was Iranian, but the arches were still corbelled in the traditional Indian way.[206]

Beside it is the extremely tall Qutb Minar, a minaret or victory tower, whose original four stages reach 73 meters (with a final stage added later). Its closest comparator is the 62-metre all-brick Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, of c. 1190, a decade or so before the probable start of the Delhi tower.[note 3] The surfaces of both are elaborately decorated with inscriptions and geometric patterns; in Delhi the shaft is fluted with "superb stalactite bracketing under the balconies" at the top of each stage.[207] In general minarets were slow to be used in India, and are often detached from the main mosque where they exist.[208]

The Tomb of Iltutmish was added by 1236; its dome, the squinches again corbelled, is now missing, and the intricate carving has been described as having an "angular harshness", from carvers working in an unfamiliar tradition.[209] Other elements were added to the complex over the next two centuries.

Another very early mosque, begun in the 1190s, is the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Ajmer, Rajasthan, built for the same Delhi rulers, again with corbelled arches and domes. Here Hindu temple columns (and possibly some new ones) are piled up in threes to achieve extra height. Both mosques had large detached screens with pointed corbelled arches added in front of them, probably under Iltutmish a couple of decades later. In these the central arch is taller, in imitation of an iwan. At Ajmer the smaller screen arches are tentatively cusped, for the first time in India.[210]

By around 1300 true domes and arches with voussoirs were being built; the ruined Tomb of Balban (d. 1287) in Delhi may be the earliest survival.[211] The Alai Darwaza gatehouse at the Qutb complex, from 1311, still shows a cautious approach to the new technology, with very thick walls and a shallow dome, only visible from a certain distance or height. Bold contrasting colours of masonry, with red sandstone and white marble, introduce what was to become a common feature of Indo-Islamic architecture, substituting for the polychrome tiles used in Persia and Central Asia. The pointed arches come together slightly at their base, giving a mild horseshoe arch effect, and their internal edges are not cusped but lined with conventionalized "spearhead" projections, possibly representing lotus buds. Jali, stone openwork screens, are introduced here; they already had been long used in temples.[212]

Tughlaq architecture edit

 
Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam at Multan, built during the reign of Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq in 1320 AD

The tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam (built 1320 to 1324) in Multan, Pakistan is a large octagonal brick-built mausoleum with polychrome glazed decoration that remains much closer to the styles of Iran and Afghanistan. Timber is also used internally. This was the earliest major monument of the Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1413), built during the unsustainable expansion of its massive territory. It was built for a Sufi saint rather than a sultan, and most of the many Tughlaq tombs are much less exuberant. The tomb of the founder of the dynasty, Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq (d. 1325) is more austere, but impressive; like a Hindu temple, it is topped with a small amalaka and a round finial like a kalasha. Unlike the buildings mentioned previously, it completely lacks carved texts, and sits in a compound with high walls and battlements. Both these tombs have external walls sloping slightly inwards, by 25° in the Delhi tomb, like many fortifications including the ruined Tughlaqabad Fort opposite the tomb, intended as the new capital.[213]

The Tughlaqs had a corps of government architects and builders, and in this and other roles employed many Hindus. They left many buildings, and a standardized dynastic style.[212] The third sultan, Firuz Shah (r. 1351–88) is said to have designed buildings himself, and was the longest ruler and greatest builder of the dynasty. His Firoz Shah Palace Complex (started 1354) at Hisar, Haryana is a ruin, but parts are in fair condition.[214] Some buildings from his reign take forms that had been rare or unknown in Islamic buildings.[215] He was buried in the large Hauz Khas Complex in Delhi, with many other buildings from his period and the later Sultanate, including several small domed pavilions supported only by columns.[216]

By this time Islamic architecture in India had adopted some features of earlier Indian architecture, such as the use of a high plinth,[217] and often mouldings around its edges, as well as columns and brackets and hypostyle halls.[218] After the death of Firoz the Tughlaqs declined, and the following Delhi dynasties were weak. Most of the monumental buildings constructed were tombs, although the impressive Lodi Gardens in Delhi (adorned with fountains, charbagh gardens, ponds, tombs and mosques) were constructed by the late Lodi dynasty. The architecture of other regional Muslim states was often more impressive.[219]

List of rulers edit

See also: List of rulers of the Delhi Sultanate

Destruction and desecration edit

Cities edit

While the sacking of cities was not uncommon in medieval warfare, the army of the Delhi Sultanate also often completely destroyed cities in their military expeditions. According to Jain chronicler Jinaprabha Suri, Nusrat Khan's conquests destroyed hundreds of towns including Ashapalli (modern-day Ahmedabad), Anhilvad (modern-day Patan), Vanthali and Surat in Gujarat.[220] This account is corroborated by Ziauddin Barani.[221]

Battles and massacres edit

  • Ghiyas ud din Balban wiped out the Rajputs of Mewat and Awadh, killing approximately 100,000 people.[222]
  • Alauddin Khalji ordered the killing of 30,000 people at Chittor.[223]
  • Alauddin Khalji ordered the killing of several prominent Brahmin and merchant civilians during his raid on Devagiri.[224]
  • According to a hymn, Muhammad bin Tughlaq is said to have killed 12,000 Hindu ascetics during the sacking of Srirangam.[225]
  • Firuz Shah Tughlaq killed 180,000 people during his invasion of Bengal.[226]

Desecration edit

 
Jordan Catala was a contemporary European witness of the destructions by the "Turkish Saracens" in India (extract from Mirabilia Descripta, written in 1329–1338).[227][228]

Historian Richard Eaton has tabulated a campaign of destruction of idols and temples by Delhi Sultans, intermixed with certain years where the temples were protected from desecration.[29][229][230] In his paper, he has listed 37 instances of Hindu temples being desecrated or destroyed in India during the Delhi Sultanate, from 1234 to 1518, for which reasonable evidences are available.[231][232][233] He notes that this was not unusual in medieval India, as there were numerous recorded instances of temple desecration by Hindu and Buddhist kings against rival Indian kingdoms between 642 and 1520, involving conflict between devotees of different Hindu deities, as well as between Hindus, Buddhists and Jains at small scales.[234][235][236] He also noted there were also many instances of Delhi sultans, who often had Hindu ministers, ordering the protection, maintenance and repairing of temples, according to both Muslim and Hindu sources. For example, a Sanskrit inscription notes that Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq repaired a Siva temple in Bidar after his Deccan conquest. There was often a pattern of Delhi sultans plundering or damaging temples during conquest, and then patronizing or repairing temples after conquest. This pattern came to an end with the Mughal Empire, where Akbar's chief minister Abu'l-Fazl criticized the excesses of earlier sultans such as Mahmud of Ghazni.[231]

In majority cases, the demolished remains, rocks and broken statue pieces of temples destroyed by Delhi sultans were reused to build mosques and other buildings. For example, the Qutb complex in Delhi was built from stones of 27 demolished Hindu and Jain temples by some accounts.[237] Similarly, the Muslim mosque in Khanapur, Maharashtra was built from the looted parts and demolished remains of Hindu temples.[59] Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji destroyed Buddhist and Hindu libraries and their manuscripts at Nalanda and Odantapuri Universities in 1193 AD at the beginning of the Delhi Sultanate.[31][30]

The first historical record of a campaign of destruction of temples and defacement of faces or heads of Hindu idols lasted from 1193 to 1194 in Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh under the command of Ghuri. Under the Mamluks and Khaljis, the campaign of temple desecration expanded to Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra, and continued through the late 13th century.[29] The campaign extended to Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu under Malik Kafur and Ulugh Khan in the 14th century, and by the Bahmanis in the 15th century.[31][failed verification] Orissa temples were destroyed in the 14th century under the Tughlaqs.

Beyond destruction and desecration, the sultans of the Delhi Sultanate in some cases had forbidden reconstruction or repair of damaged Hindu, Jain and Buddhist temples. In certain cases, the Sultanate would grant a permit for repairs and construction of temples if the patron or religious community paid jizya (fee, tax). For example, a proposal by the Chinese to repair Himalayan Buddhist temples destroyed by the Sultanate army was refused, on the grounds that such temple repairs were only allowed if the Chinese agreed to pay jizya tax to the treasury of the Sultanate.[238][239][240] According to Eva De Clercq, an expert in the study of Jainism, the Delhi Sultans did not strictly prohibit construction of new temples in the sultanate, Islamic law notwithstanding.[241] In his memoirs, Firoz Shah Tughlaq describes how he destroyed temples and built mosques instead and killed those who dared build new temples.[119] Other historical records from wazirs, amirs and the court historians of various Sultans of the Delhi Sultanate describe the grandeur of idols and temples they witnessed in their campaigns and how these were destroyed and desecrated.[242]

Temple desecration during Delhi Sultanate period, a list prepared by Richard Eaton in Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States[29][243]
Sultan / Agent Dynasty Years Temple Sites Destroyed States
Muhammad of Ghor, Qutb ud-Din Aibak and Bakhtiyar Khilji Ghurids 1192-1206 Ajmer, Samana, Kuhram, Delhi, Kara, Pushkar, Anahilavada, Kol, Kannauj, Varanasi, Nalanda, Odantapuri, Somapura, Vikramashila Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal
Iltumish, Jalal-ud-din Khalji, Alauddin Khalji, Malik Kafur Mamluk and Khalji 1211-1320 Bhilsa, Ujjain, Jhain, Vijapur, Devagiri, Ellora, Lonar, Somnath, Ashapalli, Khambat, Vamanathali, Surat, Dhar, Mandu, Ranthambore, Chittor, Siwana, Jalore, Hanmakonda, Dwarasamudra, Chidambaram, Srirangam, Madurai Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
Ulugh Khan, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, Raja Nahar Khan, Muzaffar Khan Khalji and Tughlaq 1320-1395[note 4] Warangal, Bodhan, Pillalamarri, Ghanpur, Dwarasamudra, Belur, Somanathapura, Puri, Cuttack, Jajpur, Jaunpur, Sainthali, Idar[note 5] Gujarat, Telangana, Karnataka, Orissa, Haryana
Sikandar, Muzaffar Shah, Ahmad Shah, Mahmud Sayyid 1400-1442 Paraspur, Bijbehara, Tripuresvara, Idar, Diu, Manvi, Sidhpur, Navsari, Dilwara, Kumbhalmer Gujarat, Rajasthan
Suhrab, Begada, Bahmanis, Khalil Shah, Khawwas Khan, Sikandar Lodi, Ibrahim Lodi Lodi 1457-1518 Mandalgarh, Malan, Dwarka, Alampur, Kondapalli, Kanchipuram, Amod, Nagarkot, Girnar, Vadnagar, Junagadh, Pavagadh, Utgir, Narwar, Khajuraho, Gwalior Rajasthan, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Welch and Crane note that the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque was built with the remains of demolished Hindu and Jain temples.[58]
  2. ^ Pali literature dating to the 4th century BC mentions the cakkavattaka, which commentaries explain as arahatta-ghati-yanta (machine with wheel-pots attached), and according to Pacey, water-raising devices were used for irrigation in Ancient India predating their use in the Roman empire or China.[182] Greco-Roman tradition, on the other hand, asserts that the device was introduced to India from the Roman Empire.[183] Furthermore, South Indian mathematician Bhaskara II describes water-wheels c. 1150 in his incorrect proposal for a perpetual motion machine.[184] Srivastava argues that the Sakia, or araghatta was in fact invented in India by the 4th century.[185]
  3. ^ Also two huge minarets at Ghazni.
  4. ^ Ulugh Khan also known as Almas Beg was brother of Ala-al Din Khalji; his destruction campaign overlapped the two dynasties.
  5. ^ Somnath temple went through cycles of destruction by Sultans and rebuilding by Hindus.
  1. ^ Herbert Hartel calls the Lodi sultans Turco-Afghan: "The Turco-Afghan sultans of the Lodi Dynasty...".[145]

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delhi, sultanate, confused, with, sultanate, deli, sultanate, delhi, late, medieval, empire, primarily, based, delhi, that, stretched, over, large, parts, indian, subcontinent, years, 1206, 1526, following, invasion, south, asia, ghurid, dynasty, five, dynasti. Not to be confused with Sultanate of Deli 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 320 years 1206 1526 11 12 13 Following the invasion of South Asia by the Ghurid dynasty five dynasties ruled over the Delhi Sultanate sequentially the Mamluk dynasty 1206 1290 the Khalji dynasty 1290 1320 the Tughlaq dynasty 1320 1414 the Sayyid dynasty 1414 1451 and the Lodi dynasty 1451 1526 It covered large swaths of territory in modern day India Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as some parts of southern Nepal 14 Sultanate of Delhiسلطنت دهلی Persian Salṯanat e Dihli1206 1526Flag of the Delhi Sultanate according to the contemporary Catalan Atlas c 1375 1 2 3 Delhi Sultanate at its greatest extent under the Tughlaq dynasty 1330 1335 4 5 StatusSultanateCapitalLahore 1206 1210 Badayun 1210 1214 Delhi 1214 1327 Daulatabad 1327 1334 Delhi 1334 1506 Agra 1506 1526 Common languagesPersian official and court language 6 Hindavi semi official between 1451 and 1526 7 ReligionState religionSunni IslamOthersHinduism majority Jainism Buddhism Christianity ZoroastrianismGovernmentMonarchySultan 1206 1210Qutubuddin Aibak first 1517 1526Ibrahim Lodi last Vizier 1228 1235Yaqut i Mustasimi first 1513 1526Khwaja Jahan last 8 LegislatureCorps of Forty 1211 1266 Historical eraMedieval India Independence 9 12 June 1206 Battle of Panipat21 April 1526Area 1312 3 200 000 10 km2 1 200 000 sq mi CurrencyTakaPreceded by Succeeded byGhurid dynastyGahadavalaChandela dynastyParamara dynastyDeva dynastySena dynastySeuna Yadava dynastyKakatiya dynastyVaghela dynastyYajvapala dynastyPandya DynastyEastern Ganga DynastyChahamanas of RanastambhapuraPithipatis of Bodh GayaHoysala EmpireJaunpur Sultanate Timurid EmpireMughal EmpireBahamani SultanateBengal SultanateMalwa SultanateMadurai SultanateGujarat SultanateLangah SultanateVijayanagara EmpireToday part ofBangladeshIndiaPakistanThe foundation of the Sultanate was laid by the Ghurid conqueror Muhammad Ghori who routed the Rajput Confederacy led by Ajmer ruler Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192 near Tarain after suffering a reverse against them earlier 15 As a successor to the Ghurid dynasty the Delhi Sultanate was originally one among a number of principalities ruled by the Turkic slave generals of Muhammad Ghori including Taj al Din Yildiz Qutb al Din Aibak Bahauddin Tughril and Nasir ad Din Qabacha that had inherited and divided the Ghurid territories amongst themselves 16 Khalji and Tughlaq rule ushered a new wave of rapid and ceaseless Muslim conquests deep into South India 17 18 19 The sultanate finally reached the peak of its geographical reach during the Tughlaq dynasty occupying most of the Indian subcontinent under Muhammad bin Tughluq A major political transformation occurred across Northern India triggered by Central Asian conqueror Tamerlane s devastating raid on Delhi in 1398 followed soon afterwards by the re emergence of rival Hindu powers such as Vijayanagara and Mewar asserting independence and new Muslim sultanates such as the Bengal and Bahmani Sultanates breaking off 20 21 In 1526 Timurid ruler Babur invaded northern India and conquered the Sultanate leading to its succession by the Mughal Empire The establishment of the Sultanate drew the Indian subcontinent more closely into international and multicultural Islamic social and economic networks 22 as seen concretely in the development of the Hindustani language 23 and Indo Islamic architecture 24 25 It was also one of the few powers to repel attacks by the Mongols from the Chagatai Khanate 26 and saw the enthronment of one of the few female rulers in Islamic history Razia Sultan who reigned from 1236 to 1240 27 Their treatment of Hindus is generally perceived to be favorable as there was no mass forcible conversion and Hindu officials were readily accepted 28 However there were cases like Bakhtiyar Khalji s annexations which involved a large scale desecration of Hindu and Buddhist temples 29 and the destruction of universities and libraries 30 31 Mongolian raids on West and Central Asia set the scene for centuries of migration of fleeing soldiers intelligentsia mystics traders artists and artisans from those regions into the subcontinent thereby establishing Islamic culture there 32 33 Contents 1 Name 2 History 2 1 Background 2 2 Dynasties 2 2 1 Mamluk dynasty 1206 1290 2 2 2 Khalji dynasty 1290 1320 2 2 3 Tughlaq dynasty 1320 1413 2 2 4 Sayyid dynasty 1414 1450 2 2 5 Lodi dynasty 1451 1526 3 Government and politics 3 1 Political system 3 2 Economic policy and administration 3 3 Social policies 3 4 Military 4 Economy 5 Society 5 1 Demographics 5 2 Culture 5 3 Architecture 5 3 1 Tughlaq architecture 6 List of rulers 7 Destruction and desecration 7 1 Cities 7 2 Battles and massacres 7 3 Desecration 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 10 1 Citations 10 2 Sources 11 Further reading 12 External linksName editAlthough conventionally named after its principal capital city Delhi the terminology applied to domains under Delhi Sultanate was often unspecified It was called as Empire of Delhi Persian Mamalik i Delhi by Juzjani and Barani while Ibn Batuta called the empire under Muhammad bin Tughlaq as Hind and Sind Delhi Sultanate was also known as Empire of Hindustan Persian Mamalik i Hindustan a name which gained currency during the period 34 History editBackground edit See also Mamluk and Turkic migration The rise of the Delhi Sultanate in India was part of a wider trend affecting much of the Asian continent including the whole of southern and western Asia the influx of nomadic Turkic peoples from the Central Asian steppes This can be traced back to the 9th century when the Islamic Caliphate began fragmenting in the Middle East where Muslim rulers in rival states began enslaving non Muslim nomadic Turks from the Central Asian steppes and raising many of them to become loyal army slaves called Mamluks Soon Turks were migrating to Muslim lands and becoming Islamicized Many of the Turkic Mamluk slaves eventually rose up to become rulers and conquered large parts of the Muslim world establishing Mamluk Sultanates from Egypt to present day Afghanistan before turning their attention to the Indian subcontinent 35 nbsp nbsp nbsp South Asia1175 CEKARAKHANIDKHANATEQARA KHITAIGHURIDEMPIREKUMAONCHAULUKYASCHAHAMANASLATEGHAZNAVIDSPARAMARASWESTERNCHALUKYASKAKATIYASSHILA HARASCHOLASCHERASPANDYASKADAMBASHOYSALASGAHADAVALASGUHILASKACHCHAPA GHATASCHANDELASKALACHURIS TRIPURI KALACHURIS RATNAPURA SENASCHEROSNAGVANSISKAMARUPASEASTERNGANGASGUGEMARYULLOHA RASSOOMRAEMIRATEMAKRANSULTANATE class notpageimage Main South Asian polities in 1175 on the eve of the Ghurid Empire invasion of the subcontinent Orange line Ghurid territorial conquests from 1175 to 1205 which led to the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate in 1206 36 37 It is also part of a longer trend predating the spread of Islam Like other settled agrarian societies in history those in the Indian subcontinent have been attacked by nomadic tribes throughout its long history In evaluating the impact of Islam on the subcontinent one must note that the northwestern subcontinent was a frequent target of tribes raiding from Central Asia in the pre Islamic era In that sense the Muslim intrusions and later Muslim invasions were not dissimilar to those of the earlier invasions during the 1st millennium 38 By 962 AD Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms in South Asia faced a series of raids from Muslim armies from Central Asia 39 Among them was Mahmud of Ghazni the son of a Turkic Mamluk military slave 40 who raided and plundered kingdoms in northern India from east of the Indus river to west of the Yamuna river seventeen times between 997 and 1030 41 Mahmud of Ghazni raided the treasuries but retreated each time only extending Islamic rule into western Punjab 42 43 The series of raids on northern and western Indian kingdoms by Muslim warlords continued after Mahmud of Ghazni 44 The raids did not establish or extend the permanent boundaries of the Islamic kingdoms In contrast the Ghurid Sultan Mu izz ad Din Muhammad Ghori commonly known as Muhammad of Ghor began a systematic war of expansion into northern India in 1173 45 He sought to carve out a principality for himself and expand the Islamic world 41 46 Muhammad of Ghor created a Sunni Islamic kingdom of his own extending east of the Indus river and he thus laid the foundation for the Muslim kingdom called the Delhi Sultanate 41 Some historians chronicle the Delhi Sultanate from 1192 due to the presence and geographical claims of Muhammad Ghori in South Asia by that time 47 Ghori was assassinated in 1206 by Ismaʿili Shia Muslims in some accounts or by Khokhars in others 48 After the assassination one of Ghori s slaves or Mamluks the Turkic Qutb al Din Aibak assumed power becoming the first Sultan of Delhi 41 Dynasties edit See also List of sultans of Delhi and Sultans of Delhi Family trees Mamluk dynasty 1206 1290 edit Main article Mamluk dynasty Delhi nbsp Territory of the Delhi Mamluk Dynasty circa 1250 49 Qutb al Din Aibak a former slave of Mu izz ad Din Muhammad Ghori was the first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate Aibak was of Turkic Cuman Kipchak origin and due to his lineage his dynasty is known as the Mamluk dynasty 50 Aibak reigned as the Sultan of Delhi for four years from 1206 to 1210 Aibak was praised by the contemporary and later accounts for his generosity and due to this was called with the sobriquet of Lakhbaksh giver of lakhs 51 After Aibak died Aram Shah assumed power in 1210 but he was assassinated in 1211 by Aibak s son in law Shams ud Din Iltutmish 52 Iltutmish s power was precarious and a number of Muslim amirs nobles challenged his authority as they had been supporters of Qutb al Din Aibak After a series of conquests and brutal executions of opposition Iltutmish consolidated his power 53 nbsp Tomb of Iltutmish r 1211 1236 in the Qutub Minar complex His rule was challenged a number of times such as by Qubacha and this led to a series of wars 54 Iltutmish conquered Multan and Bengal from contesting Muslim rulers as well as Ranthambore and Siwalik from the Hindu rulers He also attacked defeated and executed Taj al Din Yildiz who asserted his rights as heir to Mu izz ad Din Muhammad Ghori 55 Iltutmish s rule lasted until 1236 Following his death the Delhi Sultanate saw a succession of weak rulers disputing Muslim nobility assassinations and short lived tenures Power shifted from Rukn ud Din Firuz to Razia Sultana and others until Ghiyas ud Din Balban came to power and ruled from 1266 to 1287 54 55 Ghiyasuddin Balban destroyed the power of the Corps of Forty a council of 40 Turkic slaves who had played a role as kingmakers and had been independent of the Sultan He was succeeded by 17 year old Muiz ud Din Qaiqabad who appointed Jalal ud Din Firuz Khalji as the commander of the army Khalji assassinated Qaiqabad and assumed power in the Khalji Revolution thus ending the Mamluk dynasty and starting the Khalji dynasty Qutb al Din Aibak initiated the construction of the Qutub Minar but died before it was completed It was later completed by his son in law Iltutmish 56 The Quwwat ul Islam Might of Islam Mosque was built by Aibak now a UNESCO world heritage site 57 The Qutub Minar Complex was expanded by Iltutmish and later by Ala ud Din Khalji in the early 14th century 57 note 1 During the Mamluk dynasty many nobles from Afghanistan and Persia migrated and settled in India as West Asia came under Mongol siege 59 Khalji dynasty 1290 1320 edit Main articles Khalji Revolution and Khalji dynasty See also Mongol invasions of India nbsp Territory controlled by Khalji dynasty circa 1320 60 The Khalji dynasty was of Turko Afghan heritage 61 62 63 64 They were originally Turkic but due to their long presence in Afghanistan they were treated by others as Afghan as they adopted some of Afghan habits and customs 65 66 The first ruler of the Khalji dynasty was Jalal ud Din Firuz Khalji He was around 70 years old at the time of his ascension and was known as a mild mannered humble and kind monarch to the general public 67 68 Jalal ud Din Firuz ruled for 6 years before he was murdered in 1296 by Muhammad Salim of Samana on the orders of his nephew and son in law Juna Muhammad Khalji 69 who later came to be known as Ala ud Din Khalji 70 Ala ud Din began his military career as governor of Kara province from where he led two raids on Malwa 1292 and Devagiri 1294 for plunder and loot After his accession to the throne expansions towards these kingdoms were renewed including Gujarat which was conquered by the Grand Vizier Nusrat Khan Jalesari 71 72 73 the kingdom of Malwa by Ainul Mulk Multani 74 75 as well as Rajputana 76 However these victories were cut short because of Mongol attacks and plunder raids from the northwest The Mongols withdrew after plundering and stopped raiding northwest parts of the Delhi Sultanate 77 nbsp The Khaljis captured Jaisalmer Fort in Jaisalmer Rajputana in 1299 After the Mongols withdrew Ala ud Din Khalji continued to expand the Delhi Sultanate into southern India with the help of Indian slave generals such as Malik Kafur and Khusro Khan They collected much war booty anwatan from those they defeated 78 79 His commanders collected war spoils and paid ghanima Arabic ال غ نيم ة a tax on spoils of war which helped strengthen the Khalji rule Among the spoils was the Warangal loot that included the famous Koh i Noor diamond 80 nbsp nbsp 1320CHAGATAI KHANATEGOLDEN HORDEEMPIREOF THEGREAT KHANILKHANATEGEORGIADELHISULTANATETungusPINYAKHMERBEYLIKSMAMLUKSULTANATEGO RYEOMAJAPAHITMUSCOVY class notpageimage The Delhi Sultanate and contemporary Asian polities circa 1320 Most of the Asian continent was occupied by the Mongol Empire by that time with Turkic polities occupying South and Western Asia as far as Egypt where they established the Mamluk Sultanate Ala ud Din Khalji changed tax policies raising agriculture taxes from 20 to 50 payable in grain and agricultural produce eliminating payments and commissions on taxes collected by local chiefs banned socialization among his officials as well as inter marriage between noble families to help prevent any opposition forming against him and he cut salaries of officials poets and scholars 69 These tax policies and spending controls strengthened his treasury to pay the keep of his growing army he also introduced price controls on all agriculture produce and goods in the kingdom as well as controls on where how and by whom these goods could be sold Markets called shahana i mandi were created 81 Muslim merchants were granted exclusive permits and monopoly in these mandis to buy and resell at official prices No one other than these merchants could buy from farmers or sell in cities Those found violating these mandi rules were severely punished often by mutilation 82 83 Taxes collected in the form of grain were stored in the kingdom s storage During famines that followed these granaries ensured sufficient food for the army 69 nbsp The Alai Darwaza completed in 1311 during the Khalji dynasty Historians note Ala ud Din Khalji as being a tyrant Anyone Ala ud Din suspected of being a threat to this power was killed along with the women and children of that family He grew to eventually distrust the majority of his nobles and favored only a handful of his own slaves and family In 1298 between 15 000 and 30 000 Mongols near Delhi who had recently converted to Islam were slaughtered in a single day due to a mutiny during an invasion of Gujarat 84 He is also known for his cruelty against kingdoms he defeated in battle After Ala ud Din s death in 1316 his eunuch general Malik Kafur who was born to a Hindu family but converted to Islam assumed de facto power and was supported by non Khalaj nobles like Kamal al Din Gurg However he lacked the support of the majority of Khalaj nobles who had him assassinated hoping to take power for themselves 69 However the new ruler had the killers of Kafur executed The last Khalji ruler was Ala ud Din Khalji s 18 year old son Qutb ud Din Mubarak Shah Khalji who ruled for four years before he was killed by Khusro Khan another slave general with Hindu origins who reverted from Islam and favoured his Hindu Baradu military clan in the nobility Khusro Khan s reign lasted only a few months when Ghazi Malik later to be called Ghiyath al Din Tughlaq defeated him with the help of Khokhar tribesmen and assumed power in 1320 thus ending the Khalji dynasty and starting the Tughlaq dynasty 59 84 Tughlaq dynasty 1320 1413 edit Main article Tughlaq dynasty nbsp Territory of the Tughlaq dynasty circa 1330 1335 corresponding to the maximum extent of the Delhi Sultanate 4 The Tughlaq dynasty was a Turko Mongol 85 or Turkic 5 Muslim dynasty which lasted from 1320 to 1413 The first ruler was Ghiyath al Din Tughlaq Ghiyath al Din ruled for five years and built a town near Delhi named Tughlaqabad 86 His son Juna Khan and general Ainul Mulk Multani conquered Warangal in south India 87 According to some historians such as Vincent Smith 88 he was killed by his son Juna Khan who then assumed power in 1325 Juna Khan renamed himself as Muhammad bin Tughlaq and ruled for 26 years 89 During his rule Delhi Sultanate reached its peak in terms of geographical reach covering most of the Indian subcontinent 90 Muhammad bin Tughlaq was an intellectual with extensive knowledge of the Quran Fiqh poetry and other fields He was also deeply suspicious of his kinsmen and wazirs ministers extremely severe with his opponents and took decisions that caused economic upheaval For example he ordered minting of coins from base metals with face value of silver coins a decision that failed because ordinary people minted counterfeit coins from base metal they had in their houses and used them to pay taxes and jizya 90 88 nbsp Depiction of Ghiyath al Din Tughluq founder of the Tughlaq dynasty in the Basatin al uns by Ikhtisan i Dabir a member of the Tughluq court and an ambassador to Iran Ca 1410 Jalayirid copy of 1326 lost original 91 Muhammad bin Tughlaq chose the city of Deogiri in present day Indian state of Maharashtra renaming it Daulatabad as the second administrative capital of the Delhi Sultanate 92 He ordered a forced migration of the Muslim population of Delhi including his royal family the nobles Syeds Sheikhs and Ulema to settle in Daulatabad The purpose of transferring the entire Muslim elite to Daulatabad was to enroll them in his mission of world conquest He saw their role as propagandists who would adapt Islamic religious symbolism to the rhetoric of empire and that the Sufis could by persuasion bring many of the inhabitants of the Deccan to become Muslim 93 Tughluq cruelly punished the nobles who were unwilling to move to Daulatabad seeing their non compliance of his order as equivalent to rebellion According to Ferishta when the Mongols arrived to Punjab the Sultan returned the elite back to Delhi although Daulatabad remained as an administrative centre 94 One result of the transfer of the elite to Daulatabad was the hatred of the nobility to the Sultan which remained in their minds for a long time 95 The other result was that he managed to create a stable Muslim elite and result in the growth of the Muslim population of Daulatabad who did not return to Delhi 90 without which the rise of the Bahmanid kingdom to challenge Vijayanagara would not have been possible 96 These were the Urdu speaking community of North Indian Muslims 97 Muhammad bin Tughlaq s adventures in the Deccan region also marked campaigns of destruction and desecration temples for example the Swayambhu Shiva Temple and the Thousand Pillar Temple 31 Revolts against Muhammad bin Tughlaq began in 1327 continued over his reign and over time the geographical reach of the Sultanate shrunk The Vijayanagara Empire originated in southern India as a direct response to attacks from the Delhi Sultanate 98 and liberated south India from the Delhi Sultanate s rule 99 In the 1330s Muhammad bin Tughlaq ordered an invasion of China sending part of his forces over the Himalayas However they were defeated by the Kangra State 100 During his reign state revenues collapsed from his policies such as the base metal coins from 1329 to 1332 Famines widespread poverty and rebellion grew across the kingdom In 1338 his own nephew rebelled in Malwa whom he attacked caught and flayed alive 101 102 By 1339 the eastern regions under local Muslim governors and southern parts led by Hindu kings had revolted and declared independence from the Delhi Sultanate Muhammad bin Tughlaq did not have the resources or support to respond to the shrinking kingdom 103 The historian Walford chronicled Delhi and most of India faced severe famines during Muhammad bin Tughlaq s rule in the years after the base metal coin experiment 104 105 In 1335 Jalaluddin Ahsan Khan a Sayyid native of Kaithal in North India revolted and founded the Madurai Sultanate in South India 106 107 108 By 1347 the Bahmani Sultanate had become independent through the rebellion of Ismail Mukh It became a competing Muslim kingdom in the Deccan region of South Asia founded by Ala ud Din Bahman Shah 39 109 110 111 nbsp nbsp The Tughlaq dynasty is remembered for its architectural patronage such as the construction of Firoz Shah Kotla It reused old Buddhists pillars erected by Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE such as the Delhi Topra pillar The Sultanate initially wanted to use the pillars to make mosque minarets Firuz Shah Tughlaq decided otherwise and had them installed near mosques 112 The meaning of the Brahmi script on the pillars the Edicts of Ashoka was unknown in Firuz Shah s time 113 114 Muhammad bin Tughlaq died in 1351 while trying to chase and punish people in Gujarat who were rebelling against the Delhi Sultanate 103 He was succeeded by Firuz Shah Tughlaq 1351 1388 who tried to regain the old kingdom boundary by waging a war with Bengal for 11 months in 1359 However Bengal did not fall Firuz Shah ruled for 37 years His reign was marked with prosperity much of which was due to the wise and capable Grand Vizier Khan i Jahan Maqbul a South Indian Telugu Muslim 115 116 His reign attempted to stabilize the food supply and reduce famines by commissioning an irrigation canal from the Yamuna river An educated sultan Firuz Shah left a memoir 117 In it he wrote that he banned the practice of torture such as amputations tearing out of eyes sawing people alive crushing people s bones as punishment pouring molten lead into throats setting people on fire driving nails into hands and feet among others 118 He also wrote that he did not tolerate attempts by Rafawiz Shia Muslim and Mahdi sects from proselytizing people into their faith nor did he tolerate Hindus who tried to rebuild temples that his armies had destroyed 119 Firuz Shah Tughlaq also lists his accomplishments to include converting Hindus to Sunni Islam by announcing an exemption from taxes and jizya for those who convert and by lavishing new converts with presents and honours 120 121 122 He also vastly expanded the number of slaves in his service and those of Muslim nobles who were converted to Islam taught to read and memorize the Quran and employed in many offices especially in the military out of which he was able to amass a large army 123 These slaves who were Indian Muslims were known as the Ghulaman i Firuz Shahi and became an elite guard which later became influential in the state 124 125 The reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq was marked by reduction in extreme forms of torture elimination of favours to select parts of society but also increased intolerance and persecution of targeted groups 118 the latter of which resulting in conversion of significant parts of the population to Islam 126 nbsp A base metal coin of Muhammad bin Tughlaq that led to an economic collapse The death of Firuz Shah Tughlaq created anarchy and disintegration of the kingdom Firuz Shah s successor Ghiyath ud Din Shah II was young and inexperienced gave himself up to wine and pleasure The nobles rose up against him and killed the Sultan and his vizier and installed Abu Bakr Shah on the throne 127 However the old Ghulaman i Firuz Shahi turned against Abu Bakr who fled and on their invitation Nasir ud Din Muhammad Shah was installed on the throne 128 The anamalous institution of the Ghulaman i Firuz Shahi became a corrupting influence on the successive Sultans following Firuz Shah 129 The last rulers of this dynasty both called themselves Sultan from 1394 to 1397 Nasir ud Din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq the grandson of Firuz Shah Tughlaq who ruled from Delhi and Nasir ud Din Nusrat Shah Tughlaq another relative of Firuz Shah Tughlaq who ruled from Firozabad which was a few miles from Delhi 130 The battle between the two relatives continued until Timur s invasion in 1398 Timur also known as Tamerlane in Western scholarly literature was the Turkicized Mongol ruler of the Timurid Empire He became aware of the weakness and quarreling of the rulers of the Delhi Sultanate so he marched with his army to Delhi plundering and killing all the way 131 132 Estimates for the massacre by Timur in Delhi range from 100 000 to 200 000 people 133 134 Timur had no intention of staying in or ruling India He looted the lands he crossed then plundered and burnt Delhi Over fifteen days Timur and his army raged a massacre 135 136 Then he collected wealth captured women and enslaved people particularly skilled artisans and returning with this loot to Samarkand The people and lands within the Delhi Sultanate were left in a state of anarchy chaos and pestilence 130 Nasir ud Din Mahmud Shah Tughlaq who had fled to Gujarat during Timur s invasion returned and nominally ruled as the last ruler of Tughlaq dynasty as a puppet of various factions at the court 137 Sayyid dynasty 1414 1450 edit Main article Sayyid dynasty nbsp Territories of the Sayyid Dynasty 138 The Sayyid dynasty was founded by Khizr Khan and it ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1415 to 1451 39 Members of the dynasty derived their title Sayyid or the descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad based on the claim that they belonged to his lineage through his daughter Fatima 139 However according to Richard M Eaton and Simon Digby Khizr Khan was a Punjabi chieftain from Khokhar clan 140 141 The Timurid invasion and plunder had left the Delhi Sultanate in shambles and little is known about the rule by the Sayyid dynasty Annemarie Schimmel notes the first ruler of the dynasty as Khizr Khan who assumed power as a vassal of the Timurid Empire His authority was questioned even by those near Delhi His successor was Mubarak Khan who renamed himself Mubarak Shah discontinued his father s nominal allegiance to Timur and unsuccessfully tried to regain lost territories in Punjab from Khokhar warlords 137 142 nbsp The tomb of Muhammad Shah at Lodi Gardens New Delhi With the power of the Sayyid dynasty faltering Islam s history on the Indian subcontinent underwent a profound change according to Schimmel 137 The previously dominant Sunni sect of Islam became diluted alternate Muslim sects such as Shia rose and new competing centers of Islamic culture took roots beyond Delhi In course of the late Sayyid dynasty the Delhi Sultanate shrank until it became a minor power By the time of the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah whose name translated to king of the world this resulted in a common northern Indian witticism according to which the kingdom of the king of the world extends from Delhi to Palam i e merely 13 kilometres 8 1 mi Historian Richard M Eaton noted that this saying showcased how the once mighty empire had literally become a joke 143 The Sayyid dynasty was displaced by the Lodi dynasty in 1451 however resulting in a resurgence of the Delhi Sultanate 143 Lodi dynasty 1451 1526 edit Main article Lodi dynasty nbsp Territory of the Lodi Sultanate 1451 1526 144 The Lodi dynasty was an Afghan or Turco Afghan dynasty a related to the Pashtun Afghan Lodi tribe 146 147 The founder of the dynasty Bahlul Khan Lodi was a Khalji of the Lodi clan 148 He started his reign by attacking the Muslim Jaunpur Sultanate to expand the influence of the Delhi Sultanate and was partially successful through a treaty Thereafter the region from Delhi to Varanasi then at the border of Bengal province was back under influence of Delhi Sultanate nbsp Bada Gumbad Lodhi Gardens New Delhi After Bahlul Lodi died his son Nizam Khan assumed power renamed himself Sikandar Lodi and ruled from 1489 to 1517 149 One of the better known rulers of the dynasty Sikandar Lodi expelled his brother Barbak Shah from Jaunpur installed his son Jalal Khan as the ruler then proceeded east to make claims on Bihar The Muslim governors of Bihar agreed to pay tribute and taxes but operated independent of the Delhi Sultanate Sikandar Lodi led a campaign of destruction of temples particularly around Mathura He also moved his capital and court from Delhi to Agra 150 an ancient Hindu city that had been destroyed during the plunder and attacks of the early Delhi Sultanate period Sikandar thus erected buildings with Indo Islamic architecture in Agra during his rule and the growth of Agra continued during the Mughal Empire after the end of the Delhi Sultanate 151 152 Sikandar Lodi died a natural death in 1517 and his second son Ibrahim Lodi assumed power Ibrahim did not enjoy the support of Afghan and Persian nobles or regional chiefs 153 Ibrahim attacked and killed his elder brother Jalal Khan who was installed as the governor of Jaunpur by his father and had the support of the amirs and chiefs 151 Ibrahim Lodi was unable to consolidate his power and after Jalal Khan s death the governor of Punjab Daulat Khan Lodi reached out to the Mughal Babur and invited him to attack the Delhi Sultanate 154 Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi in the Battle of Panipat in 1526 The death of Ibrahim Lodi ended the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire replaced it 155 Government and politics editThe historian Peter Jackson explains in The New Cambridge History of Islam The elite of the early Delhi sultanate comprised overwhelmingly first generation immigrants from Persia and Central Asia Persians Tajiks Turks Ghuris and also Khalaj from the hot regions garmsir of modern Afghanistan 156 Political system edit Medieval scholars such as Isami and Barani suggested that the prehistory of the Delhi Sultanate lay in the Ghaznavid state and that its ruler Mahmud Ghaznavi provided the foundation and inspiration integral in the making of the Delhi regime The Mongol and infidel Hindus were the great Others in these narratives and the Persianate and class conscious aristocratic virtues of the ideal state were creatively memorialized in the Ghaznavid state now the templates for the Delhi Sultanate Cast within a historical narrative it allowed for a more self reflective linear rooting of the Sultanate in the great traditions of Muslim statecraft 157 Over time successive Muslim dynasties created a centralized structure in the Persian tradition whose task was to mobilize human and material resources for the ongoing armed struggle against both Mongol and Hindu infidels 158 The monarch was not the Sultan of the Hindus or of say the people of Haryana rather in the eyes of the Sultanate s chroniclers the Muslims constituted what in more recent times would be termed a Staatsvolk For many Muslim observers the ultimate justification for any ruler within the Islamic world was the protection and advancement of the faith For the Sultans as for their Ghaznavid and Ghurid predecessors this entailed the suppression of heterodox Muslims and Firuz Shah attached some importance to the fact that he had acted against the ashab i ilhad u ibahat deviators and latitudinarians It also involved plundering and extorting tribute from independent Hindu principalities 159 Firuz Shah who finally believed that India was a Muslim country 160 declared that no zimmi living in a Musalman country might dare to act 161 The Hindu polytheists who submitted to Islamic rule qualified as protected peoples according to the wide spectrum of the educated Muslim community within the subcontinent The balance of the evidence is that in the latter half of the fourteenth century if not before the jizyah was definitely levied as a discriminatory tax on non Muslims although even then it is difficult to see how such a measure could have been enforced outside the principal centres of Muslim authority 162 The Delhi Sultanate also continued the governmental conventions of the previous Hindu polities claiming paramountcy of some of its subjects rather than exclusive supreme control Accordingly it did not interfere with the autonomy and military of certain conquered Hindu rulers and freely included Hindu vassals and officials 12 Economic policy and administration edit See also Market reforms of Alauddin Khalji nbsp Coin of Ghiyath al Din Iwad Governor of Bengal AH 614 616 AD 1217 1220 Struck in the name of Shams al Din Iltutmish Sultan of Dehli The economic policy of the Delhi Sultanate was characterized by greater government involvement in the economy relative to the Classical Hindu dynasties and increased penalties for private businesses that broke government regulations Alauddin Khalji replaced the private markets with four centralized government run markets appointed a market controller and implemented strict price controls 163 on all kinds of goods from caps to socks from combs to needles from vegetables soups sweetmeats to chapatis according to Ziauddin Barani c 1357 164 The price controls were inflexible even during droughts 165 Capitalist investors were completely banned from participating in the horse trade 166 animal and slave brokers were forbidden from collecting commissions 167 and private merchants were eliminated from all animal and slave markets 167 Bans were instituted against hoarding 168 and regrating 169 granaries were nationalized 168 and limits were placed on the amount of grain that could be used by cultivators for personal use 170 Various licensing rules were imposed Registration of merchants was required 171 and expensive goods such as certain fabrics were deemed unnecessary for the general public and required a permit from the state to be purchased These licenses were issued to amirs maliks and other important persons in government 167 Agricultural taxes were raised to 50 Traders regarded the regulations as burdensome and violations were severely punished leading to further resentment among the traders 164 A network of spies was instituted to ensure the implementation of the system even after price controls were lifted after Khalji s death Barani claims that the fear of his spies remained and that people continued to avoid trading in expensive commodities 172 Social policies edit nbsp Ghiyath al Din Tughluq leading his troops in the capture of the city of Tirhut in 1324 from Basatin al uns by Ikhtisan i Dabir a member of the Tughluq court Ca 1410 Jalayirid copy of 1326 lost original Istanbul Topkapi Palace Museum Library Ms R 1032 173 The sultanate enforced Islamic religious prohibitions of anthropomorphic representations in art 174 Military edit The army of the Delhi sultans initially consisted of nomadic Turkic Mamluk military slaves belonging to Muhammad of Ghor The nucleus of this south east Asian sultanate military were the Turco Afghani regular units named Wajih which were composed of elite household cavalry archers who came from slave backgrounds 175 A major military contribution of the Delhi Sultanate were their successful campaigns repelling the Mongol Empire s invasions of India which could have been devastating for the Indian subcontinent like the Mongol invasions of China Persia and Europe Were it not for the Delhi Sultanate it is possible that the Mongol Empire may have been successful in invading India 35 The strength of the armies changes according to time Economy editSee also Economic history of India Some historians argue that the Delhi Sultanate was responsible for making India more multicultural and cosmopolitan The establishment of the Delhi Sultanate in India has been compared to the expansion of the Mongol Empire and called part of a larger trend occurring throughout much of Eurasia in which nomadic people migrated from the steppes of Inner Asia and became politically dominant 22 According to Angus Maddison between the years 1000 and 1500 India s GDP of which the sultanates represented a significant part grew nearly 8 to 60 5 billion in 1500 Though the overall the percentage of the GDP share reduced from 33 to 22 176 According to Maddison s estimates India s population grew from 85million in 1200 to 101 million in 1500 AD in the time period 177 nbsp Transportation of the Delhi Topra pillar to Delhi Sirat i Firuz Shahi 14th century illustration 178 The Delhi Sultanate period coincided with a more use of mechanical technology in the Indian subcontinent India previously already had highly sophisticated agriculture food crops textiles medicine minerals and metals later on Central Asian technique were introduced in the subcontinent 179 there are plentiful evidence of water wheels existing in India prior to the Delhi Sultanate as described by the various Chinese monks and Arabs travellers and writers in their books 180 181 note 2 Later Mughal emperor Babur provided a description on the use of water wheels in the Delhi Sultanate 186 According to historians Arnold Pacey and Irfan Habib the spinning wheel was introduced to India from Iran during the Delhi Sultanate 187 Smith and Cothren suggested that it was invented in India during the latter half of the first millennium 188 but Pacey and Habib said these early references to cotton spinning do not clearly identify a wheel but more likely refer to hand spinning 187 The earliest unambiguous reference to a spinning wheel in India is dated to 1350 187 The worm gear roller cotton gin was invented in the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries Habib states that the development may likely occurred in peninsular India before becoming more widespread across India during the Mughal era 189 The incorporation of the crank handle in the cotton gin may have appeared sometime during the late Delhi Sultanate or the early Mughal Empire 190 India and China has connections throughout the thousands of years of history Paper had already reached some parts of India as early as the 6th or 7th century 191 192 193 initially through Chinese travellers and the ancient silk road which India was very well connected with Earlier some historians believed that paper failed to catch on as palmyra leaves and birch bark remained far more popular but this theory was descredited later on 194 195 196 197 On the other hand paper may have arrived in Bengal from a separate route as 15th century Chinese traveler Ma Huan remarked that Bengali paper was white and made from bark of a tree similar to the Chinese method of papermaking as opposed to the Middle Eastern method of using rags and waste material suggesting a direct route from China for the arrival of paper in Bengal and paper was already very well established and widespread in that part of the subcontinent 197 197 Society editDemographics edit See also Demographics of India History According to one set of the very uncertain estimates of modern historians the total Indian population had largely been stagnant at 75 million during the Middle Kingdoms era from 1 AD to 1000 AD During the Medieval Delhi Sultanate era from 1000 to 1500 India as a whole experienced lasting population growth for the first time in a thousand years with its population increasing nearly 50 to 110 million by 1500 AD 198 199 Culture edit See also Indo Persian culture nbsp Decorative reliefs Alai Darwaza 1311 While the Indian subcontinent has had invaders from Central Asia since ancient times what made the Muslim invasions different is that unlike the preceding invaders who assimilated into the prevalent social system the successful Muslim conquerors retained their Islamic identity and created new legal and administrative systems that challenged and usually in many cases superseded the existing systems of social conduct and ethics even influencing the non Muslim rivals and common masses to a large extent though the non Muslim population was left to their own laws and customs 200 201 They also introduced new cultural codes that in some ways were very different from the existing cultural codes This led to the rise of a new Indian culture which was mixed in nature different from ancient Indian culture The overwhelming majority of Muslims in India were Indian natives converted to Islam This factor also played an important role in the synthesis of cultures 202 The Hindustani language Hindi Urdu began to emerge in the Delhi Sultanate period developed from the Middle Indo Aryan apabhramsha vernaculars of North India Amir Khusro who lived in the 13th century CE during the Delhi Sultanate period in North India used a form of Hindustani which was the lingua franca of the period in his writings and referred to it as Hindavi 23 The officers the Sultans Khans Maliks and the soldiers wore the Islamic qabas dress in the style of Khwarezm which were tucked in the middle of the body while the turban and kullah were common headwear The turbans were wrapped around the kullah caps and the feet were covered with red boots The Wazirs and Katibs also dressed like the soldiers except they did not use belts and often let down a piece of cloth in front of them in the manner of the Sufis The judges and the learned men wore ample gowns farajiyat and an Arabic garment durra 203 Architecture edit Main article Indo Islamic architecture nbsp The Qutb Minar left begun c 1200 next to the Alai Darwaza gatehouse 1311 Qutb Complex in Delhi 57 The start of the Delhi Sultanate in 1206 under Qutb al Din Aibak introduced a large Islamic state to India using Central Asian styles 204 The types and forms of large buildings required by Muslim elites with mosques and tombs much the most common were very different from those previously built in India The exteriors of both were very often topped by large domes and made extensive use of arches Both of these features were hardly used in Hindu temple architecture and other indigenous Indian styles Both types of building essentially consist of a single large space under a high dome and completely avoid the figurative sculpture so important to Hindu temple architecture 205 The important Qutb Complex in Delhi was begun under Muhammad of Ghor by 1199 and continued under Qutb al Din Aibak and later sultans The Quwwat ul Islam Mosque now a ruin was the first structure Like other early Islamic buildings it re used elements such as columns from destroyed Hindu and Jain temples including one on the same site whose platform was reused The style was Iranian but the arches were still corbelled in the traditional Indian way 206 Beside it is the extremely tall Qutb Minar a minaret or victory tower whose original four stages reach 73 meters with a final stage added later Its closest comparator is the 62 metre all brick Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan of c 1190 a decade or so before the probable start of the Delhi tower note 3 The surfaces of both are elaborately decorated with inscriptions and geometric patterns in Delhi the shaft is fluted with superb stalactite bracketing under the balconies at the top of each stage 207 In general minarets were slow to be used in India and are often detached from the main mosque where they exist 208 The Tomb of Iltutmish was added by 1236 its dome the squinches again corbelled is now missing and the intricate carving has been described as having an angular harshness from carvers working in an unfamiliar tradition 209 Other elements were added to the complex over the next two centuries Another very early mosque begun in the 1190s is the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Ajmer Rajasthan built for the same Delhi rulers again with corbelled arches and domes Here Hindu temple columns and possibly some new ones are piled up in threes to achieve extra height Both mosques had large detached screens with pointed corbelled arches added in front of them probably under Iltutmish a couple of decades later In these the central arch is taller in imitation of an iwan At Ajmer the smaller screen arches are tentatively cusped for the first time in India 210 By around 1300 true domes and arches with voussoirs were being built the ruined Tomb of Balban d 1287 in Delhi may be the earliest survival 211 The Alai Darwaza gatehouse at the Qutb complex from 1311 still shows a cautious approach to the new technology with very thick walls and a shallow dome only visible from a certain distance or height Bold contrasting colours of masonry with red sandstone and white marble introduce what was to become a common feature of Indo Islamic architecture substituting for the polychrome tiles used in Persia and Central Asia The pointed arches come together slightly at their base giving a mild horseshoe arch effect and their internal edges are not cusped but lined with conventionalized spearhead projections possibly representing lotus buds Jali stone openwork screens are introduced here they already had been long used in temples 212 Tughlaq architecture edit nbsp Tomb of Shah Rukn e Alam at Multan built during the reign of Ghiyas ud Din Tughluq in 1320 ADThe tomb of Shah Rukn e Alam built 1320 to 1324 in Multan Pakistan is a large octagonal brick built mausoleum with polychrome glazed decoration that remains much closer to the styles of Iran and Afghanistan Timber is also used internally This was the earliest major monument of the Tughlaq dynasty 1320 1413 built during the unsustainable expansion of its massive territory It was built for a Sufi saint rather than a sultan and most of the many Tughlaq tombs are much less exuberant The tomb of the founder of the dynasty Ghiyath al Din Tughluq d 1325 is more austere but impressive like a Hindu temple it is topped with a small amalaka and a round finial like a kalasha Unlike the buildings mentioned previously it completely lacks carved texts and sits in a compound with high walls and battlements Both these tombs have external walls sloping slightly inwards by 25 in the Delhi tomb like many fortifications including the ruined Tughlaqabad Fort opposite the tomb intended as the new capital 213 The Tughlaqs had a corps of government architects and builders and in this and other roles employed many Hindus They left many buildings and a standardized dynastic style 212 The third sultan Firuz Shah r 1351 88 is said to have designed buildings himself and was the longest ruler and greatest builder of the dynasty His Firoz Shah Palace Complex started 1354 at Hisar Haryana is a ruin but parts are in fair condition 214 Some buildings from his reign take forms that had been rare or unknown in Islamic buildings 215 He was buried in the large Hauz Khas Complex in Delhi with many other buildings from his period and the later Sultanate including several small domed pavilions supported only by columns 216 By this time Islamic architecture in India had adopted some features of earlier Indian architecture such as the use of a high plinth 217 and often mouldings around its edges as well as columns and brackets and hypostyle halls 218 After the death of Firoz the Tughlaqs declined and the following Delhi dynasties were weak Most of the monumental buildings constructed were tombs although the impressive Lodi Gardens in Delhi adorned with fountains charbagh gardens ponds tombs and mosques were constructed by the late Lodi dynasty The architecture of other regional Muslim states was often more impressive 219 nbsp Screen of the Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra mosque Ajmer c 1229 Corbel arches some cusped nbsp Tomb of Ghiyath al Din Tughluq d 1325 Delhi nbsp Possibly the first true arches in India Tomb of Balban d 1287 in Delhi nbsp Pavilions in the Hauz Khas Complex Delhi nbsp The Sheesh Gumbad in the Lodi Gardens Delhi nbsp Tomb of Sikander Lodi in the Lodi Gardens DelhiList of rulers editSee also List of rulers of the Delhi SultanateDestruction and desecration editCities edit While the sacking of cities was not uncommon in medieval warfare the army of the Delhi Sultanate also often completely destroyed cities in their military expeditions According to Jain chronicler Jinaprabha Suri Nusrat Khan s conquests destroyed hundreds of towns including Ashapalli modern day Ahmedabad Anhilvad modern day Patan Vanthali and Surat in Gujarat 220 This account is corroborated by Ziauddin Barani 221 Battles and massacres edit Ghiyas ud din Balban wiped out the Rajputs of Mewat and Awadh killing approximately 100 000 people 222 Alauddin Khalji ordered the killing of 30 000 people at Chittor 223 Alauddin Khalji ordered the killing of several prominent Brahmin and merchant civilians during his raid on Devagiri 224 According to a hymn Muhammad bin Tughlaq is said to have killed 12 000 Hindu ascetics during the sacking of Srirangam 225 Firuz Shah Tughlaq killed 180 000 people during his invasion of Bengal 226 Desecration edit nbsp Jordan Catala was a contemporary European witness of the destructions by the Turkish Saracens in India extract from Mirabilia Descripta written in 1329 1338 227 228 Historian Richard Eaton has tabulated a campaign of destruction of idols and temples by Delhi Sultans intermixed with certain years where the temples were protected from desecration 29 229 230 In his paper he has listed 37 instances of Hindu temples being desecrated or destroyed in India during the Delhi Sultanate from 1234 to 1518 for which reasonable evidences are available 231 232 233 He notes that this was not unusual in medieval India as there were numerous recorded instances of temple desecration by Hindu and Buddhist kings against rival Indian kingdoms between 642 and 1520 involving conflict between devotees of different Hindu deities as well as between Hindus Buddhists and Jains at small scales 234 235 236 He also noted there were also many instances of Delhi sultans who often had Hindu ministers ordering the protection maintenance and repairing of temples according to both Muslim and Hindu sources For example a Sanskrit inscription notes that Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq repaired a Siva temple in Bidar after his Deccan conquest There was often a pattern of Delhi sultans plundering or damaging temples during conquest and then patronizing or repairing temples after conquest This pattern came to an end with the Mughal Empire where Akbar s chief minister Abu l Fazl criticized the excesses of earlier sultans such as Mahmud of Ghazni 231 In majority cases the demolished remains rocks and broken statue pieces of temples destroyed by Delhi sultans were reused to build mosques and other buildings For example the Qutb complex in Delhi was built from stones of 27 demolished Hindu and Jain temples by some accounts 237 Similarly the Muslim mosque in Khanapur Maharashtra was built from the looted parts and demolished remains of Hindu temples 59 Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji destroyed Buddhist and Hindu libraries and their manuscripts at Nalanda and Odantapuri Universities in 1193 AD at the beginning of the Delhi Sultanate 31 30 The first historical record of a campaign of destruction of temples and defacement of faces or heads of Hindu idols lasted from 1193 to 1194 in Rajasthan Punjab Haryana and Uttar Pradesh under the command of Ghuri Under the Mamluks and Khaljis the campaign of temple desecration expanded to Bihar Madhya Pradesh Gujarat and Maharashtra and continued through the late 13th century 29 The campaign extended to Andhra Pradesh Karnataka and Tamil Nadu under Malik Kafur and Ulugh Khan in the 14th century and by the Bahmanis in the 15th century 31 failed verification Orissa temples were destroyed in the 14th century under the Tughlaqs Beyond destruction and desecration the sultans of the Delhi Sultanate in some cases had forbidden reconstruction or repair of damaged Hindu Jain and Buddhist temples In certain cases the Sultanate would grant a permit for repairs and construction of temples if the patron or religious community paid jizya fee tax For example a proposal by the Chinese to repair Himalayan Buddhist temples destroyed by the Sultanate army was refused on the grounds that such temple repairs were only allowed if the Chinese agreed to pay jizya tax to the treasury of the Sultanate 238 239 240 According to Eva De Clercq an expert in the study of Jainism the Delhi Sultans did not strictly prohibit construction of new temples in the sultanate Islamic law notwithstanding 241 In his memoirs Firoz Shah Tughlaq describes how he destroyed temples and built mosques instead and killed those who dared build new temples 119 Other historical records from wazirs amirs and the court historians of various Sultans of the Delhi Sultanate describe the grandeur of idols and temples they witnessed in their campaigns and how these were destroyed and desecrated 242 Temple desecration during Delhi Sultanate period a list prepared by Richard Eaton in Temple Desecration and Indo Muslim States 29 243 Sultan Agent Dynasty Years Temple Sites Destroyed StatesMuhammad of Ghor Qutb ud Din Aibak and Bakhtiyar Khilji Ghurids 1192 1206 Ajmer Samana Kuhram Delhi Kara Pushkar Anahilavada Kol Kannauj Varanasi Nalanda Odantapuri Somapura Vikramashila Rajasthan Punjab Haryana Gujarat Uttar Pradesh Bihar BengalIltumish Jalal ud din Khalji Alauddin Khalji Malik Kafur Mamluk and Khalji 1211 1320 Bhilsa Ujjain Jhain Vijapur Devagiri Ellora Lonar Somnath Ashapalli Khambat Vamanathali Surat Dhar Mandu Ranthambore Chittor Siwana Jalore Hanmakonda Dwarasamudra Chidambaram Srirangam Madurai Bihar Madhya Pradesh Rajasthan Gujarat Maharashtra Telangana Karnataka Tamil NaduUlugh Khan Firuz Shah Tughlaq Raja Nahar Khan Muzaffar Khan Khalji and Tughlaq 1320 1395 note 4 Warangal Bodhan Pillalamarri Ghanpur Dwarasamudra Belur Somanathapura Puri Cuttack Jajpur Jaunpur Sainthali Idar note 5 Gujarat Telangana Karnataka Orissa HaryanaSikandar Muzaffar Shah Ahmad Shah Mahmud Sayyid 1400 1442 Paraspur Bijbehara Tripuresvara Idar Diu Manvi Sidhpur Navsari Dilwara Kumbhalmer Gujarat RajasthanSuhrab Begada Bahmanis Khalil Shah Khawwas Khan Sikandar Lodi Ibrahim Lodi Lodi 1457 1518 Mandalgarh Malan Dwarka Alampur Kondapalli Kanchipuram Amod Nagarkot Girnar Vadnagar Junagadh Pavagadh Utgir Narwar Khajuraho Gwalior Rajasthan Gujarat Himachal Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Telangana Andhra Pradesh Tamil NaduIconoclasm under the Delhi Sultanate nbsp The Somnath Temple in Gujarat was repeatedly destroyed by Muslim armies and rebuilt by Hindus It was destroyed by Delhi Sultanate s army in 1299 244 nbsp The Kashi Vishwanath Temple was destroyed by Muhammad of Ghor along with thousand other temples in Benaras 245 nbsp Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji the general of Ghurid ruler Muhammad of Ghor was responsible for the destruction of Nalanda university 246 nbsp The armies of Delhi Sultanate led by Muslim Commander Malik Kafur plundered the Meenakshi Temple and looted it of its valuables 247 248 249 nbsp Kakatiya Kala Thoranam Warangal Gate built by the Kakatiya dynasty in ruins one of the many temple complexes destroyed by the Delhi Sultanate 29 nbsp Rani ki vav is a stepwell built by the Chaulukya dynasty located in Patan the city was sacked by Sultan of Delhi Qutb ud din Aybak between 1200 and 1210 and again by the Allauddin Khilji in 1298 250 nbsp Artistic rendition of the Kirtistambh at Rudra Mahalaya Temple The temple was destroyed by Alauddin Khalji 251 nbsp Exterior wall reliefs at Hoysaleswara Temple The temple was twice sacked and plundered by the Delhi Sultanate 252 See also editMongol invasions of India Delhi Sultanate literature Iconoclasm Ibrahim Lodhi s Tomb Persianate states Tomb of Bahlul Lodi Turkish slaves in the Delhi Sultanate Islam in South AsiaNotes edit Welch and Crane note that the Quwwat ul Islam Mosque was built with the remains of demolished Hindu and Jain temples 58 Pali literature dating to the 4th century BC mentions the cakkavattaka which commentaries explain as arahatta ghati yanta machine with wheel pots attached and according to Pacey water raising devices were used for irrigation in Ancient India predating their use in the Roman empire or China 182 Greco Roman tradition on the other hand asserts that the device was introduced to India from the Roman Empire 183 Furthermore South Indian mathematician Bhaskara II describes water wheels c 1150 in his incorrect proposal for a perpetual motion machine 184 Srivastava argues that the Sakia or araghatta was in fact invented in India by the 4th century 185 Also two huge minarets at Ghazni Ulugh Khan also known as Almas Beg was brother 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