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Download Solution PDFWho among the following was the first Sayyid ruler of Delhi?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Khizr khan.
Key Points
- Sayyid dynasty(1414–51), rulers of India’s Delhi sultanate as successors of the Tughluq dynasty until displaced by the Afghan Lodīs.
- This family claimed to be sayyids or descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.
- The first Sayyid ruler of Delhi was Khizr Khan (reigned 1414–21), who had been the governor of Punjab.
- Khizr’s successor, Mubārak Shah, had some success, but, after the latter’s assassination in 1434, his two successors, Muḥammad Shah and ʿĀlam Shah, proved incapable.
- In 1451 Bahlūl Lodī, already ruler of Punjab seized Delhi and inaugurated the Lodi, the last dynasty of the Delhi sultanate.
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