The expansion occurred during the reigns of Ghiyasuddin Balban, Alauddin Khalji and Muhammad Tughluq.The state was also challenged by Mongol invasions from Afghanistan and by governors who rebelled.Controlling garrison towns in distant Bengal and Sind from Delhi was extremely difficult.The Sultans seldom controlled the hinterland, the lands adjacent to a city or port that supply it with goods and services, of the cities and were therefore dependent upon trade, tribute or plunder for supplies.
In the early 13th century the control of the Delhi Sultans rarely went beyond heavily fortified towns occupied by garrisons.The expansion of the Delhi Sultanate Delhi Sultanate – Boundaries Nobles were not happy at her attempts to rule independently. In 1236 Sultan Iltutmish’s daughter, Raziyya, became Sultan.Objectives of these writings : (a) They often wrote their histories for Sultans in the hope of rich rewards (b) they advised rulers on the need to preserve an “ideal” social order based on birthright and gender distinctions (c) their ideas were not shared by everybody.“Histories”, tarikh (singular) / tawarikh (plural), written in Persian, the language of administration under the Delhi Sultans by learned men: secretaries, administrators, poets and courtiers who lived in cities (mainly Delhi) and hardly ever in villages.By the 13th century Sultanates transformed Delhi into a capital that controlled vast areas of the subcontinent.Delhi first became the capital of a kingdom under the Tomara Rajputs, who were defeated in the middle of the twelfth century by the Chauhans.Delhi became an important city only in the 12th century.When did Delhi became strategically important as center of political importance? Who were the major rules of Delhi during medieval period? Hopefully you will get answers to these questions in this post. These points might come quite handy during preparation of Prelims and Mains, to get a quick grasp of the subject. Only main points from the chapters are compiled below. Well, Indian History continues ? In this article on Medieval India, we plan to cover the Delhi Sultanate. The reference material for this post is NCERT History text for Class 7 (Our past -1).