How did the The Delhi Sultanate maintain his rule in India? What difficulties did he have to overcome in order to maintain his rule?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Rule of the Delhi Sultanante
1. no consistent form of administration
2. more remote territories, the Delhi Sultan was an overlord, mediating
between small, autonomous states, many of which Hindus ruled
3. core of lands was the Sultan's personal property
a. exploited to benefit his treasury
b. run by administrators he appointed
4. Bengal was the exception
a. governors tried to promote Muslim settlement
b. making land grants to holy men and religious communities
c. lands the Sultan granted to warriors in exchange for military
service ringed this core
5. had a volatile history
a. succession wars that were resolved at great oath-taking ceremonies
1. aristocracy of the realm
2. a great diversity of freelance warriors and local rulers
3. emotional but often short-lived declarations of loyalty
B. Overcoming difficulties
1. choosing a successor
a. Iltutmish was no respecter of conventional ideas of hierarchy
b. chose his daughter, Radiyya, as his successor
1. against Muslim norms
2. the army and the court were willing to accept her but
only as a figurehead representative of her father
3. not as an active leader of men
2. turbulent subjects
a. elite
b. Hindu subjects and neighbors
3. lack of one state's ability to have control over all of the Indian subcontinent
a. frontier expansion was slow
b. deforestation was an act of state due to the number of small
groups living in the region
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