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Analyse the racial composition and the role of nobility under the successors of Iltutmish. How did it affect the contemporary politics?

  • UPSC 2012
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

When Iltutmish died in 1236, he left behind not merely a throne but a governing class strong enough to make or unmake whoever sat on it.

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  • Iltutmish and the Making of the Chihalgani
  • The Racial and Social Composition of the Nobility
  • Razia Sultan and the Revolt Against the Forty
  • The Age of Puppet Sultans
  • Balban: Breaking the Forty, Redefining Kingship
  • Effects on Contemporary Politics

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