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Write short essay on The “Corps of Forty” and its relations with the Sultan

  • UPSC 2008
  • The Thirteenth Century

Between Iltutmish's death in 1236 and Balban's accession in 1266, the Delhi Sultanate faced a structural crisis distinct from external invasion or Rajput resistance: a slave elite, the Turkan-i-Chahalgani, had grown powerful enough to make and unmake its own masters. The Corps of Forty problem is best understood not through its origins but through this…

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