Twilight of the Sultanate c16.2

c16.2

THE POLITICAL HISTORY of India from Tīmūr to Bābur does not make happy reading. During the first half of the period, despite its struggle for survival, the Sultanate went on shrinking. Some stability was attained in the second half, some lost territory was reclaimed, but then all was lost to Bābur in the end. In the political sphere, therefore, the fifteenth century was a period of decay and disintegration.