The Delhi Sultanate introduced Persianate Islamic statecraft to South Asia and for three centuries made Delhi the preeminent city of the subcontinent, establishing the cultural and administrative foundations that the Mughal Empire would inherit.
The Delhi Sultanate ended in 1526 CE when the last sultan Ibrahim Lodi was defeated and killed at the First Battle of Panipat on 21 April 1526 by Babur, who founded the Mughal Empire.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Delhi Sultanate — the shape you scrub through changes in 1206 · 1340 · 1446 · 1496.
The authoritative modern scholarly history of the Delhi Sultanate across all five dynasties.
Ibn Battuta served as a qadi at the court of Muhammad bin Tughluq; his travelogue is a vivid contemporary eyewitness source for the Delhi Sultanate at its height.
A canonical Sufi epic poem dramatizing Alauddin Khilji's siege of Chittor, composed under Delhi Sultanate-era Indo-Persian literary culture; a genuinely famous, era-fitting classic.