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Updated: 14 Sep 2022
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In 1320 the Tughlaq Dynasty took control over most of modern-day India. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq expanded this all the way to the south-eastern coast. The dynasty lasted until 1414. after Timur invaded India and massacred the capital city, a family claiming to be descent from the Prophet Muhammad took control of northern India, establishing the basis for the Sayyid Dynasty.Qutub-ud-Dïn Aybak founded the Mamluk Dynasty in Northern India
He died in 1210 and his son-in-law Iltutmish took over and established the sultanate before he died in 1236. The next 4 descendants that were put on the throne were killed, one of them being a woman.Named after Jalal-ud-Dïn Khilji, who assassinated the last ruler of the Mamluk Dynasty, Moiz ud din Qaiqabad in 1290. Khilji was murdered by his nephew, Ala-ud-din six years later. He was able to expand the dynasty over Southern and Central India. After his death in 1316 his son took over and ruled for 4 years before he was murdered by Khusro Khan, ending the Khilji Dynasty.Sayyid Khizr Khan, who claimed to represent the Timur, ruled the Sayyid Dynasty after the fall of the Tughlaq Dynasty. However, his rule was highly contested as well as his heirs. This dynasty ended when the fourth sultan abdicated the throne.The Lodi Dynasty, who came from Afghanistan, took over after the failed Sayyid. He reconsolidated northern India and improved the dynasty after the weak rule of the Sayyid Dynasty. The Lodi Dynasty fell after the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 duirng which Babur defeated the far larger Lodi armies and killed Ibrahim Lodi.Babur founded the Mughal Empire, which would rule India until the British Raj brought it down in 1857.
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