High Middle Ages · South Asia · Politics
1296
Alauddin Khalji seizes the Delhi throne
1296
After murdering his uncle and father-in-law Jalaluddin at Kara, Alauddin Khalji rode south to Delhi with a war chest taken from a raid on Devagiri. He bribed nobles and ascended the Sultanate throne, beginning a reign of extraordinary conquests and equally extraordinary cruelty. His price controls and market regulations, enforced by a network of spies, created a command economy unique in medieval India.
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Also in 1296 (3 other events on record)
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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