Medieval India : from Sultanat to the Mughals: Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526) . Part - I / by Satish Chandra

Includes glossary and index.

West and Central Asia between the 10th and 12th centuries, and Turkish advance towards India -- Establishment and territorial consolidation of the Delhi Sultanat (11206-1236) -- Struggle for the establishment of a centralized monarchy (1236-1290) -- The Mongol threat to India during the 13th -14th centuries -- Internal restructuring of the Delhi Sultanat, and its territorial expansion (1290-1320) -- Problems of a centralised All-India-State Ghiyasuddin and Muhammad bin Tughlaq (1320-1351) -- Reassertion of a state based benevolence - disintegration of the Delhi Sultanat -- Government and administration under the Delhi Sultanat (13th-14th centuries) -- Economic and social life in North India under the Delhi Sultanat: economic life - social life -- Politics, state, society and the economy in South India under Vijayanagar and Bahmanid rule (c.1350-1565) -- Establishment of Portuguese control in the Indian Seas and its economic and political impact -- Rise of regional kingdoms in North India and a system of balance of power -- Religious and cultural life under the Delhi Sultanat -- The state in India under the Sultanat