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    The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India from 1206 to 1526 and was founded after Muhammad of Ghor captured Delhi in 1192. It consisted of several Muslim dynasties, including the Slave Dynasty which ruled from 1206-1290, the Khalji Dynasty from 1290-1320, and the Tughluq Dynasty from 1325-1398. The Delhi Sultanate reached the height of its power under the Khaljis but declined due to revolts and loss of territory under the eccentric rule of Muhammad Tughluq of the Tughluq Dynasty. By 1398, the once great sultanate had fallen after being sacked by Timur.

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    The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India from 1206 to 1526 and was founded after Muhammad of Ghor captured Delhi in 1192. It consisted of several Muslim dynasties, including the Slave Dynasty which ruled from 1206-1290, the Khalji Dynasty from 1290-1320, and the Tughluq Dynasty from 1325-1398. The Delhi Sultanate reached the height of its power under the Khaljis but declined due to revolts and loss of territory under the eccentric rule of Muhammad Tughluq of the Tughluq Dynasty. By 1398, the once great sultanate had fallen after being sacked by Timur.

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    The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India from 1206 to 1526 and was founded after Muhammad of Ghor captured Delhi in 1192. It consisted of several Muslim dynasties, including the Slave Dynasty which ruled from 1206-1290, the Khalji Dynasty from 1290-1320, and the Tughluq Dynasty from 1325-1398. The Delhi Sultanate reached the height of its power under the Khaljis but declined due to revolts and loss of territory under the eccentric rule of Muhammad Tughluq of the Tughluq Dynasty. By 1398, the once great sultanate had fallen after being sacked by Timur.

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    The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India from 1206 to 1526 and was founded after Muhammad of Ghor captured Delhi in 1192. It consisted of several Muslim dynasties, including the Slave Dynasty which ruled from 1206-1290, the Khalji Dynasty from 1290-1320, and the Tughluq Dynasty from 1325-1398. The Delhi Sultanate reached the height of its power under the Khaljis but declined due to revolts and loss of territory under the eccentric rule of Muhammad Tughluq of the Tughluq Dynasty. By 1398, the once great sultanate had fallen after being sacked by Timur.

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    Delhi Sultanate

    Delhi Sultanate, refers to the various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India (12101526). It was founded after Muhammad of Ghor defeated Prithvi Raj and captured Delhi in 1192. In 1206, Qutb ud-Din, one of his generals, proclaimed himself sultan of Delhi and founded a line of rulers called the Slave dynasty, because he and several of the sultans who claimed succession from him were originally military slaves. Iltutmish (121035) and Balban (126687) were among the dynasty's most illustrious rulers. Constantly faced with revolts by conquered territories and rival families, the Slave dynasty came to an end in 1290. Under the Khalji dynasty (12901320), the conquests of Ala ud-Din Khalji brought Muslim dominion in India to its greatest height until the Mughul empire. Early in the reign of Muhammad Tughluq, founder of the Tughluq dynasty (132598), the power of Delhi was acknowledged even in the extreme S of India. His eccentric rule and ferocious temperament provoked a series of revolts, notably that of the Hindu Vijayanagar kingdom in the south, and a steady loss of territory; by his death (1351) the Hindu south had recovered its independence and the Deccan had become a separate Muslim state, the Bahmani kingdom. Under Tughluq's successors the sultanate of Delhi began to disintegrate into several small states. With the sack of Delhi by Timur in 1398, the once great sultanate fell, although local rulers lingered on at Delhi until the invasion of Babur and the Mughal conquest.

    The Mughal Empire


    The Mughal Empire in India represented a period of grandeur for Muslim India. The Indian subcontinent at that time - and today - had a Hindu majority among the population. Muslims, however, had become a large minority in India since their first arrival in the 8th century. The Delhi Sultanate, the immediate predecessor to the Mughal Empire in northern India, had set an example of positive Muslim-Hindu relations in a Muslimcontrolled empire, which the Mughal Empire would follow. Timur virtually destroyed the Delhi Sultanate in 1398, but it was able to recover, and it existed for over a century after that. Significantly, it was Timur's descendants who again destroyed the Delhi Sultanate in 1526 to establish the Mughal Empire. The word Mughal, which is spelled several different ways in English, is derived from the Persian word for Mongol, based on the fact that the Empire's ancestor was Timur, himself a Mongol descendant. The Mughal Empire's founder, Babur, did not consider it a Mongol empire in any way, since Mongol descendants in Central Asia were much more Turkish than Mongol by the 15th and 16th centuries, but the name for his realm has stuck throughout history. The Mughals brought many changes to India:

    Centralized government that brought together many smaller kingdoms Delegated government with respect for human rights Persian art and culture Persian language mixed with Arabic and Hindi to create Urdu Periods of great religious tolerance A style of architecture (e.g. the Taj Mahal)

    A system of education that took account of pupils' needs and culture

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