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Assess the contribution of Iltutmish for the expansion and consolidation of the Delhi Sultanate

  • UPSC 2011
  • The Thirteenth Century

When Iltutmish ascended the Delhi throne in 1210, the Turkish position in India was a loose military occupation held together by the personal authority of a handful of former slave-commanders, fractured on almost every front — rival claimants at Lahore and Uchch, unsubdued Rajput chiefs, and an unresolved question of legal status vis-à-vis the wider…

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  • Neutralising Rival Claimants and Unifying Turkish Territory
  • The Rajput Frontier and Territorial Recovery
  • Legitimacy: The Caliphal Investiture
  • Institutional Foundations
  • The Mongol Storm and Strategic Restraint
  • Hereditary Monarchy

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