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Give your assessment of Bahlul Lodi’s relation with his nobility.

  • UPSC 2021
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Bahlul Lodi, chief of the Pashtun Lodi tribe, founded the Lodi dynasty in 1451 as the first Afghan-led house to rule the Delhi Sultanate.

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