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Write brief essay: The Khilji Revolution

  • UPSC 2006
  • The Fourteenth Century

The term "Khalji Revolution" was popularised by the historian Mohammad Habib, writing in the nationalist-era reassessment of Sultanate history, to describe the 1290 accession of Jalaluddin Khalji as something qualitatively different from an ordinary dynastic transition. On its face, the event was simple palace politics: an ageing noble seized the throne from the last feeble…

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