Late Middle Ages · South Asia · Politics
1317
Tughlaq dynasty rises in Delhi
1317
Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, a frontier general of mixed Turkic and Hindu parentage, overthrew the last Khalji sultan and founded the dynasty that would rule northern India for nearly a century. His military roads and postal relays stitched the subcontinent together with a ruthless efficiency that awed even Ibn Battuta.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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