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# Twilight of the Sultanate

Timur's invasion and the Delhi sultanate from the Sayyids to the Lodīs and Bābur's conquest; the regional sultanates of the fifteenth century.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [K. S. Lal](https://indike.org/pramana/person/lal-ks)
- **Extent:** 2,865 passages, 136,787 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · Bombay: Asia Publishing House 1963; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (K. S. Lal †2002); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that copy,…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c1) — 1 part
- [c2 Twilight of the Sultanate](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c2) — 7 parts
- [c3 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c3) — 43 parts
- [c4 Abbreviations Used in References for Titles of Works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c4) — 2 parts
- [c5 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c5) — 15 parts
- [c6 Chapter I: A Decade of Decline](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c6) — 4 parts
- [c7 Chapter 2: Visitation of a Scourge](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c7) — 22 parts
- [c8 Chapter 3: Bid for the Throne](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c8) — 8 parts
- [c9 Chapter 4: Revenue Through Bayonet](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c9) — 4 parts
- [c10 Chapter 5: The Punjab in Turmoil](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c10) — 7 parts
- [c11 Chapter 6: The Problem Tract](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c11) — 3 parts
- [c12 Chapter 7: Az Dehlī Tā Pālam](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c12) — 2 parts
- [c13 Chapter 8: Primus Inter Pares](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c13) — 5 parts
- [c14 Chapter 9: Efforts at Stability](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c14) — 17 parts
- [c15 Chapter 10: Sultanate Under Ibrāhīm Lodī](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c15) — 22 parts
- [c16 Chapter II: Cultural Activity in the Fifteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c16) — 9 parts
- [c17 Chapter 12: Social and Economic Life](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c17) — 12 parts
- [c18 Chapter 13: An Age of Socio-Religious Reformers](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c18) — 16 parts
- [c19 Appendixes](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c19) — 4 parts
- [c20 Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c20) — 2 parts
- [c21 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.lal-1963.c21) — 340 parts

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