The Delhi Sultanate was a late medieval empire on the Indian subcontinent that lasted from 1206 to 1526, established in former Ghurid territories after the death of Muhammad of Ghor, with Qutb ud-Din Aibak, a former slave of Ghori, as its first ruler. Its capital moved between Lahore, Badayun, Delhi, Daulatabad and Agra across its history, and five major dynasties ruled it in succession: the Mamluk, Khalji, Tughlaq, Sayyid and Lodi dynasties. At its peak under the Tughlaq dynasty the sultanate covered most of the Indian subcontinent, spanning present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and parts of Nepal, with a population estimated at 101 million by 1500, and it repelled repeated Mongol invasions while developing the Hindustani language and Indo-Islamic architecture; one of its rulers, Razia Sultana, was among the few women to rule an Islamic state. The sultanate ended in 1526 when Babur defeated and killed the last Lodi sultan, Ibrahim Lodi, at the Battle of Panipat, and the Mughal Empire succeeded it.
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How did the Delhi Sultanate treat its non-Muslim subjects?
Non-Muslims paid land tax and were not charged the jizya until 1351; Hindu chiefs often kept their lands for tribute.
The sultans took land tax at the rate of one half of the produce and did not disturb the rights of non-Muslims on the lands they tilled. Until the accession of Firoz Shah Tughlaq in 1351, no attempt was made to impose the jizya, a tax on the person, on any section of the non-Muslims, although the land tax itself was often called khiraj-o-jizya. Hindu chiefs were generally left in possession of their principalities in return for annual tribute, and some were even recruited as officers of the sultan's government. Village headmen were brought into the machinery of revenue collection, and Ala al-Din Khalji is reported to have stopped them from shifting their share of the land tax onto ordinary peasants.
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The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi.
Delhi Sultanate: Status
Ibrahim Lodi was unable to consolidate his power, and after Jalal Khan's death, the governor of Lahore, Daulat Khan Lodi, reached out to the Mughal Babur and invited him to attack the Delhi Sultanate. Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi in the battle of Panipat in 1526.
- Succeeded By: The Mughal Empire
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The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries.
In Era: The Early Modern Period, lead paragraph and infobox, existence dates
The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for more than three centuries.
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