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The 50 pages that link to Delhi Sultanate, each with the reason it gives.

• Mughal EmpireCompared with: The Mughal conquest replaced the Lodi dynasty, the last ruling house of the Delhi Sultanate.

• Ibn BattutaRelated: Ibn Battuta served Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq as a judge in Delhi.

• BaburRelated: Babur’s conquest displaced its final ruling dynasty and took its capital.

• UrduRelated: Its courts and armies brought Persianate culture into sustained contact with northern Indian speech.

• SultanBroader topic: Its dynasties carried the sultan title into the political history of South Asia.

• Urdu poetryRelated: Its multilingual urban culture formed part of the setting for Urdu’s literary emergence.

• DelhiRelated: Its reign established Delhi as a lasting center of regional power.

• IqtaRelated: The sultanate developed its own revenue-assignment system, often compared with iqta.

• Urdu literatureRelated: The sultanate's multilingual setting helped establish Persianate literary culture in northern India.

• Ghurid dynastyNarrower topic: Ghurid commanders’ Indian territories developed into the first Delhi Sultanate.

• Bengal SultanateRelated: Bengal’s rulers gained independence as Delhi’s control over the region weakened.

• Amir KhusrauNarrower topic: Its courts and political changes provided the setting for Khusrau’s long career.

• Indo-Islamic architectureBroader topic: Its rulers sponsored some of the earliest major Islamic monuments in northern India.

• Humayun’s TombRelated: The tomb rose in a city already shaped by centuries of Islamic rule and monumental building.

• Mahmud of GhazniRelated: Ghaznavid expansion helped establish precedents for later Muslim rule in northern India.

• Tripartite StruggleCompared with: Its centralized sultanates emerged centuries after the three-way struggle among regional dynasties.

• Indian miniature paintingRelated: Its courts and connections with Persianate culture preceded the major Mughal painting ateliers.

• Qutb al-Din AibakNarrower topic: Aibak's rule is conventionally treated as its beginning.

• Alauddin KhaljiNarrower topic: Alauddin’s state was one phase of this larger political formation.

• Battle of the IndusRelated: Jalal al-Din sought support in the Indian subcontinent after crossing the river.

• Early medieval IndiaCompared with: Its emergence marks a major political transition near the conventional end of this period.

• Indo-Persian cultureBroader topic: Its courts established Persian as a major language of government and high literary culture in North India.

• Mansabdari systemCompared with: Its administrative precedents clarify what Mughal rule inherited and reshaped.

• Qutb MinarNarrower topic: The tower’s builders and later restorers ruled from this sultanate’s capital region.

• SultanateBroader topic: Its dynasties formed a major South Asian example of sultanate government.

• IltutmishNarrower topic: Iltutmish's reign established the political foundations of this larger state.

• Mir Taqi MirNarrower topic: Its older courtly world formed part of the region’s literary inheritance, though it ended before Mir’s lifetime.

• Mongol invasions of IndiaRelated: Its rulers organized the principal military and political resistance to Mongol incursions.

• Pandya dynastyCompared with: Its southern campaigns helped end the Pandyas’ medieval political dominance.

• First Battle of PanipatNarrower topic: The battle brought the Delhi Sultanate’s final ruling dynasty to an end.

• Prithviraj ChauhanNarrower topic: Ghurid victories after Prithviraj's defeat helped establish the political foundations for its rise.

• History of IndiaBroader topic: Its courts, armies, and revenue systems reshaped northern Indian statecraft.

• Jalal al-Din MangburniRelated: Jalal al-Din sought support and refuge in the region after crossing the Indus.

• Medieval IndiaBroader topic: Its five dynasties made Delhi a lasting center of imperial rule before the Mughals.

• Muhammad of GhorBroader topic: The sultanate arose from the Ghurid political and military presence Muhammad established.

• MultanRelated: Sultans based in Delhi repeatedly contested and governed Multan.

• SamosaRelated: Medieval accounts place samosa-like pastries in elite kitchens during the Sultanate era.

• Muhammad bin TughluqNarrower topic: Its administrative reach and political pressures shaped what the sultan could attempt.

• HindustaniRelated: Its multilingual courts and cities formed part of the historical setting for Indo-Persian language contact.

• History of BiharNarrower topic: Its expansion reshaped political authority in Bihar after the early medieval kingdoms.

• LudhianaNarrower topic: Ludhiana’s early history unfolded within the sultanate’s north Indian political sphere.

• North IndiaRelated: Its capital helped make Delhi a lasting center of northern political power.

• Bahmani KingdomNarrower topic: The Bahmani state emerged through rebellion against Delhi's authority in the Deccan.

• History of DelhiBroader topic: The sultanate made Delhi a durable center of conquest, administration, and dynastic change.

• History of Uttar PradeshRelated: Its rulers incorporated towns and territories in the region into a north Indian sultanate.

• Hoysala KingdomRelated: Its southward campaigns brought military pressure to Hoysala territories in the 14th century.

• Jalal-ud-Din KhaljiNarrower topic: Jalal-ud-Din’s authority depended on the sultanate’s institutions and rival power centers.

• Middle kingdoms of IndiaCompared with: Its rise brought new ruling institutions after the conventional end of this period.

• Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinentBroader topic: It turned Ghurid military gains into a long-lived political order.

• Seuna dynastyNarrower topic: Its expansion into the Deccan transformed the Seunas from regional rulers into subjects of northern power.