What is the Delhi Sultanate?
Q: What is the Delhi Sultanate?
A: The Delhi Sultanate was a group of Islamic Persian-speaking dynasties of Turkic and Afghan origin that controlled most of the Indian subcontinent from 1210 to 1526.
Q: Where were most of the dynasties based?
A: Most of these dynasties were based in Delhi.
Q: Name some of the dynasties that ruled during the Delhi Sultanate.
A: Some of the dynasties that ruled during the Delhi Sultanate include the Slave dynasty, Khilji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty, Sayyid dynasty, and Lodi dynasty.
Q: When did the Pashtun Lodi dynasty fall?
A: The Pashtun Lodi dynasty fell in 1526.
Q: Who conquered the region after the fall of the Pashtun Lodi dynasty?
A: The Mughals conquered the region after the fall of the Pashtun Lodi dynasty.
Q: Was there a time when the Mughal rule was temporarily interrupted?
A: Yes, there was a brief period when Humayun, son of the Mughal Babur and father of Akbar the Great, was deposed by the Pashtun Suri dynasty under Sher Shah Suri who enjoyed a short rule then, before Humayun was reinstated in 1555.
Q: When did the Delhi Sultanate come to an end?
A: The Delhi Sultanate came to an end in 1526, with the fall of the Pashtun Lodi dynasty and the rise of the Mughals.
