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What, in your opinion, was the significance of the extensive military expeditions undertaken during the time of Alauddin Khalji? Do you think his reign is considered significant in terms of such expeditions alone?

  • UPSC 1991
  • The Fourteenth Century

Alauddin Khalji's two decades on the throne (1296-1316) produced the most extensive programme of military expansion the Delhi Sultanate had seen since Iltutmish, permanently redrawing the subcontinent's political map from Gujarat to Madurai. Yet the expeditions, significant as they were, form only half of the reign's historical weight — the accompanying administrative and fiscal restructuring…

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  • Consolidating the North: Gujarat to Chittor
  • The Epochal Southward Push Under Malik Kafur
  • The Mongol Defence System
  • Why the Reign Should Not Be Judged on Expeditions Alone

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