| Slave | Qutbuddin | Died while playing Chaugan. Aram Shah (short period) | ||||
| Aibak | ||||||
| Shamsuddin | He defeated Yalduz of Ghazni & Qubacha of Multan. Captured the | |||||
| Iltutmish | fort of Ranthambor, Lakhnauti. Organized the iqta system (land | |||||
| assignment) & currency (introduced copper tanka & silver jital). | ||||||
| Razia Sultana | Married Malik Altunia (Governor of Bhatinda). Turkish Aamirs | |||||
| played the dominant role & after Razia, they enthroned Bahram | ||||||
| Shah, Masud Shah & Nasiruddin Mahmud in that order. | ||||||
| Balban (Ulugh | Balban was Turkish slave of Iltutmish. He poisoned his master | |||||
| Khan) | Nasiruddin Mahmud. Killed the rebel governor of Bengal, Tughril | |||||
| Khan. He revived the practice of sijda (prostration) & paibos | ||||||
| (kissing monarch’s feet). | ||||||
| Kaikhusrau, Kaiquabad & Kaimurs had short duration. | ||||||
| Khalji | Jalaluddin Khalji | Descended at the age of seventy. Later Alauddin murdered his uncle | ||||
| & father in law Jalaluddin & seized the throne. | ||||||
| Alauddin Khalji | Lay seige to Ranthambor which was under redoubtable Hammir | |||||
| Deva which continued till one year. Later Chittor under Ratan | ||||||
| Singh (wife Padmini) fell & was renamed Kizhrabad. Malik Kafur | ||||||
| campaigned | against | Kaktiyas | (Warangal), | Hoysalas | ||
| (Dwarasamudra) & Pandyas. Mubarak Shah (son) & Khusrau khan | ||||||
| had short rule. | ||||||
| Kharaj (land tax – 50%), Charai, Gharii (dwelling tax). First to | ||||||
| introduce permanent standing army, dagh & chehra. Afghans & | ||||||
| Sultan’s Indian officers rose to prominence. | ||||||
| Tughlaq | Ghiyasuddin | Earlier called Ghazi Malik. Ghiasuddin had repelled mongol attack | ||||
| Tughlaq | under khaljis before ascending throne. Attaked Kaktiyas & Bengal | |||||
| succesfully. Founded third city of Delhi – Tughlaqabad. | ||||||
| Muhammad bin | Open consorting with Hindus & Jogis. Killed Ulemas, qazis who | |||||
| Tughlaq | rose in rebellion. Shifted capital to Devagiri (renamed Daulatabad), | |||||
| token currency (bronze coin-jittal). Shifted to Swargadwari during | ||||||
| famine. At his death Barani commented, ‘at last the people got rid | ||||||
| of him & he got rid of the people’. First sultan to visit the shrine of | ||||||
| Moinuddin Chisti. Disciple of Shaikh Alauddin & Jinaprabha Suri. | ||||||
| Firuz Shah | Not a military leader. Conqured Thatta, Orissa (uprooted Jagannath | |||||
| Tughlaq | idol), Nagarkot. Distributed iqtas, made them heritable increased | |||||
| salaries. Founded Fatehabad, Hissar, Firuzpur, Jaunpur & | ||||||
| Firuzabad. Built canals. Influence of Ulema revived. First muslim | ||||||
| ruler to impose Jaziya on Brahmins but abolished Ghari & Charai. | ||||||
| Visited the shrine of Salar Masud Ghazi & became fanatical. | ||||||
| Removed paintings from palace. Got many sanskirt works | ||||||
| translated in Persian | ||||||
| Timur | Timur 1398 AD | During the reign of Mahmud Tughlaq who fled the city. He | ||||
| Invastion | assigned Delhi to Khizr Khan & hence Sayyid dynasty was born. | |||||
| Sayyids | Khizr Khan | Khizr Khan’s reign as well as that of his successors, Mubarak Shah, | ||||
| Muhammad Shah & Alauddin Alam Shah was spent trying to | ||||||
| control the rebellious leaders (esp. Khokhars led by Jasrath). | ||||||
| Lodis | Bahlul Lodi | First dynasty to be headed by Afghans. Principal event of Bahlul | ||||
| Lodi’s life was the annexation of Juanpur kingdom. | ||||||
| Sikander Lodi | Contemporary of Mahmud Begarha of Gujarat & Rana Sanga of | |||||
| Mewar. The rent rolls of his reign formed the basis during Sher | ||||||
| Shah Suri period. Imposed the Jaziya. The Bahluli coin remained in | ||||||
| circulation till Akbar’s rule. He was the only sultan to be killed in | ||||||
| the battle field. | ||||||
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