Delhi Sultanate

The **Delhi Sultanate** or **Sultanate-e-Hind** () controlled most of the Indian subcontinent from 1210 to 1526 from Delhi. It included the Mamluk dynasty (1206-90), the Khalji dynasty (1290-1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1413), the Sayyid dynasty (1414-51), and the Lodi dynasty (1451-1526). The reign of the Delhi Sultans ended after Ibrahim Lodi of the Lodi dynasty was defeated by Babur and killed in action in the First Battle of Panipat.

### Mamluk, or Slave dynasty (1206 - 1290)

- Qutb-ud-din Aibak (1206 - 1210)
- Aram Shah (1210 - 1211)
- Shams-ud-din Iltutmish (1211 - 1236)
- Rukn ud din Firuz (1236)
- Raziyyat ud din Sultana (1236 - 1240) (Raziyya Sultana)
- Muiz ud din Bahram (1240 - 1242)
- Ala ud din Masud (1242 - 1246)
- Nasir ud din Mahmud (1246 - 1266)
- Ghiyas ud din Balban (1266 - 1286)
- Muiz ud din Qaiqabad (1286 - 1290)
- Shamsuddin Kayumars (1290)

### Khilji (Khalji) dynasty (1290 - 1320)

- Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji (1290 - 1294)
- Ala ud din Khilji (1294 - 1316)
- Qutb ud din Mubarak Shah (1316 - 1320)

### Tughlaq dynasty (1321 - 1398)

- Ghiyas ud din Tughluq Shah I (1321 - 1325)
- Muhammad Shah II (1325 - 1351)
- Mahmud Ibn Muhammad ( March 1351)
- Firuz Shah Tughluq (1351 - 1388)
- Ghiyas ud din Tughluq II (1388 - 1389)
- Abu Bakar (1389 - 1390)
- Nasir ud din Muhammad Shah III (1390 - 1393)
- Sikander Shah I ( March - April 1393)
- Mahmud Nasir ud din (Sultan Mahmud II) at Delhi (1393 - 1394)
- Nusrat Shah at Firuzabad (1394 - 1398)

### Sayyid (Syed) dynasty (1414 - 1451)

- Khizr Khan (1414 - 1421)
- Mubarrak Shah II (1421 - 1435)
- Muhammad Shah IV (1435 - 1445)
- Aladdin Alam Shah (1445 - 1451)

### Lodi (Lodhi) dynasty (1451 - 1526)

- Bahlol Khan Lodi (1451-1489)
- Sikandar Lodi (1489-1518)
- Ibrahim II (1517-1526)

**1526-1540: Mughal rule after the First Battle of Panipat**

## Related pages

- History of South Asia
- Mamluk dynasty
- Delhi
- History of India

## Literature

- Elliot and Dowson: _The History of India as told by its own Historians_, (New Delhi) reprint, 1990.
- Peter Jackson _The Delhi Sultanate. A Political and Military History_ (Cambridge) 1999
- Majumdar, R. C. (ed.), _The History and Culture of the Indian People_, Volume VI, _The Delhi Sultanate_, (Bombay) 1960; Volume VII, _The Mughal Empire_, (Bombay) 1973.
- Nizami, Khaliq Ahmad _Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India in the Thirteenth Century_ (Delhi) 1961 (Revised Edition Delhi 2002)

## Other websites

- Delhi Sultanate Dynasty
- List of rulers of Delhi

## Infobox (former country)

- **conventional long name**: Sultanate of Delhi
- **native name**:

- **common name**: Delhi Sultanate
- **era**: Medieval India
- **status**: Sultanate
- **event start**: History of Delhi#8th century to 16th century, Independence
- **year start**: 1206
- **date start**: 25 June
- **event end**: Battle of Panipat (1526), Battle of Panipat
- **year end**: 1526
- **date end**: 21
 April
- **p1**: Ghurid Empire
- **s1**: Mughal Empire
- **s2**: Bengal Sultanate
- **s3**: Bahmani Sultanate
- **s4**: Gujarat Sultanate
- **s5**: Malwa Sultanate
- **s6**: Khandesh Sultanate
- **s7**: Jaunpur Sultanate
- **s8**: Multan Sultanate
- **s9**: Madurai Sultanate
- **legislature**: Corps of Forty (1211–1266)
- **area km2**: 3,200,000
- **area label**: 1312
- **population estimate**: 101,000,000
- **population estimate year**: 1500
- **religion**: **State religion**
Sunni Islam
**Others**
Hinduism (majority), Jainism, Buddhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism
- **currency**: Ancient taka, Taka
- **government type**: Monarchy
- **leader1**: Qutb ud-Din Aibak (first)
- **year leader1**: 1206–1210
- **leader2**: Ibrahim Lodi (last)
- **year leader2**: 1517–1526
- **title leader**: List of sultans of Delhi, Sultan
- **image flag**: Delhi Sultanate Flag.svg
- **flag type**: Flag of the Delhi Sultanate according to the contemporary _Catalan Atlas_ ( 1375).
- **flag border**: no