Question

What was the central authority in the administration of the delhi sultanate?

Answer 1

✔✔The first salient feature was that it was expected to work in accordance with the Islamic jurisprudence or law.


✔✔The second was that it should follow the Islamic principle of sovereignty which declares that the Muslims all over the world have only one ruler i.e. the Caliph or Khalifa of Baghdad.

✔✔None else could be deemed as a sovereign ruler. The Sultan was considered as a representative of the Caliph. Most of the Sultans of Delhi regarded themselves as the Viceroys of the Khalifa in whose name they ruled. Again most of them used Khalifa’s name on their coins.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Central Departments under the Delhi Sultanate

The administration system of the Delhi Sultanate was governed and directed by the Quranic injunctions. The empire considered the Quranic law as the supreme law of the empire. The supreme sovereign ruler according to the Islamic theory of sovereignty was the Caliph. All the Muslim kings throughout the world were his subordinates. During the great Sultanate period, the power of the Caliph was at its zenith.

The Sultanate government was a centralized one in spite of the fact that it had the original democratic nature of an Islamic State. The Sultans were in a way forced to make the Government centralized one because during their ruling period the all the Hindu chiefs were not suppressed altogether. Some of them were always rebellious. The Sultans feared the repeated dander of Mongol invasion and thus were compelled to keep a very large army and a centralized government system.