The Sultanate of Delhi, 711–1526 A.D. c7.s1.3

c7.s1.3

Geographically and politically, there were four groups of States in the country, namely, (1) the Himalayan group, (2) the Indo-Gangetic plain, (3) the Dakhin States, and (4) the Southern Peninsular States. There was nothing to prevent a State from expanding beyond its own zone into a neighbouring one. In fact, such expansion by military conquest was common enough during the period under review, for the ancient Kshatriya ideal of *Digvijaya*, that is, the conquest of the entire sub-continent, still swayed the ambition of our rulers. But this ideal was never hereafter fully realized.