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conquering Jaunpur, Bihar and the Ganga valley. period came to an end and the Mughal dynasty
He signed a treaty of friendship with Bengal. He was founded in India. This dynasty ruled for 300
worked for the welfare of the people. He tried to years. You will read about this dynasty in the
fix the prices of essential commodities. He got course of this book.
canals and wells dug for irrigation. He founded Quiz Time
the city of Agra and shifted his capital there. He
was succeeded by Ibrahim Lodi in 1517. Write True or False :
Ibrahim Lodi 1. Muhammad-bin-Tughluq became very popular
because of his good ideas. _________
_________
Ibrahim Lodi was not a strong sultan. The Afghan
nobles revolted against him, but he defeated 2. The paymaster for the army was called bakshi.
them. In order to prevent any such revolts in the _________
_________
future, he replaced the senior nobles with young 3. Firoz Shah Tughluq was the father of
people. This resulted in resentment. One of these Muhammad-bin Tughluq. _________
_________
nobles, Daulat Khan Lodi , invited Babur to invade
India. Daulat Khan Lodi was the uncle of Ibrahim 4. The administration under the Tughluqs was
_________
Lodi. divided into five major departments. _________
Babur fought with Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat in 1526 5. Khizr Khan was one of the sultans of the Sayyid
_________
and defeated him. With this, the Delhi Sultanate dynasty. _________

v Delhi became an important city during the rule of Prithviraj Chauhan, after whom five dynasties ruled it for
over three centuries—Slave dynasty, Khalji dynasty, Tughluq dynasty, Sayyid dynasty and Lodi dynasty.

v Qutb-ud-din Aibak and his son Iltutmish expanded the empire; Raziya became the first woman ruler of the
Muslim world in this dynasty.

v Balban was a strong ruler of the Slave dynasty, after whom the reign was taken over by the Khalji rulers.
v Ala-ud-din Khalji expanded his territories further and administered them well.
v The Tughluq dynasty came to power in 1320; though its rulers were strong, yet they had impractical ideas
due to which they faced revolts.
v The Sayyid dynasty ruled for a brief period of 27 years, after which the Lodi dynasty came to power in
1451, but it was routed and put to an end in 1526 by Babur.

A. Tick (3) the right option :
1. The first dynasty during the Delhi Sultanate period was the ______________ .

(a) Slave dynasty (b) Sayyid dynasty (c) none of these
2. Shams-ud-din Iltutmish belonged to the ______________ .
(a) Khalji dynasty (b) Slave dynasty (c) none of these

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