Marked Delhi

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Delhi Sultanate

A series of Muslim dynasties ruled northern India from Delhi for three centuries. They fought off the Mongols, built the Qutb Minar, and in Razia Sultan had one of the few women to rule in their own name.

Place
Delhi · Mehrauli · Tughlaqabad · DaulatabadAsia
Laid out as
A dynastyA line of rulers, one after another, and what each reign changed.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IThe slave kings
  2. IIThe Qutb Minar
  3. IIIRazia Sultan
  4. IVHolding off the Mongols
  5. VIbn Battuta in Delhi
  6. VITimur sacks Delhi

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Qutb ud-Din Aibak
  • Razia Sultan
  • Alauddin Khalji
  • Muhammad bin Tughluq

Objects

  • The Qutb Minar
  • Coins of Razia

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1206 to 1526. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?