Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526) - Part OneThe present work is a broad survey of political, social, economic and cultural developments in India between 1206 and 1526. These three and a quarter centuries, called the Delhi Sultanat, is sometimes seen as a dark age of war and rapine in which little developments took place. |
Contents
Rajput Kingdoms in North India 10th | 19 |
The Rise of the Ghurids and their | 26 |
2 | 36 |
ii | 44 |
4 | 64 |
Internal Restructuring of the Delhi | 75 |
Ghiyasuddin and Muhammad bin Tughlaq | 96 |
Government and Administration under | 129 |
The Bahmani Kingdomits growth and | 183 |
Establishment of Portuguese Control 192 | 192 |
The Portuguese Estado da India | 199 |
Rise of Regional Kingdoms in North India | 210 |
Gujarat Malwa and | 217 |
the Sharqis | 224 |
Religious and Cultural Life Under the | 230 |
Sanskrit Arabic | 259 |
Court and the Royal Household | 139 |
a Economic Life | 145 |
b Social Life | 158 |
Politics State Society and the Economy in South | 175 |
The State in India under the Sultanat | 265 |
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