MHI-04: POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN INDIA
Course Code: MHI-04
Assignment Code: MHI-04/AST/TMA/2016-17
Total Marks: 100
Q3:- Critically examine the nature of
state under the Delhi Sultanate.
The
Sultans of Delhi came from relatively humble origins. They were slaves who rose
to become generals in the armies of the Afghan ruler Muizz al-Din Ghuri. Their
transformation into rulers of a kingdom of great political influence in North
India was a slow and discontinuous process that occurred through the thirteenth
century. For the better part of that century, there were many centers of social
and political power in the early Delhi Sultanate. There were military
commanders with contending political ambitions, as well as urban elites with
contrasting social constituencies, religious ideologies, and personal
commitments. Such people did not always support authoritarian interventions
seeking to create a monolithic state.
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