What was the impact of Khalji Revolution?
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The Khilji dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Turkic origin. It was founded by Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji and became the second dynasty to rule the Delhi Sultanate of India. The dynasty is known for their faithlessness and ferocity.
Khiljis were vassals of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty) of Delhi and served the Sultan of Delhi, Ghiyasuddin Balban. Balban’s successors were murdered over 1289-1290, and the Mamluk dynasty succumbed to the factional conflicts within the Mamluk dynasty and the Muslim nobility. As the struggle between the factions razed, Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji led a coup and murdered the 17 year old Mamluk successor Muizuddin Qaiqabad – the last ruler of Mamluk dynasty.
Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji was accepted as sultan by a faction of Muslim amirs of Turkic, Persian, Arabic factions and Indian-Muslim aristocrats. However, Jalaluddin in his old age was unpopular and not universally accepted. During his six year reign (1290–96), some of Balban’s officers revolted due to his assumption of power and the subsequent sidelining of nobility and commanders serving the Mamluk dynasty. Jalaluddin suppressed the revolt and executed some commanders, then led an unsuccessful expedition against Ranthambhor and repelled a Mongol force on the banks of the Sind River in central India with the help of his nephew Juna Khan (Alauddin Khilji).
Juna Khan later to be known as Alauddin Khilji, was the nephew and son-in-law of Jalaluddin, raided the Hindu Deccan peninsula and Deogiri -the capital of the Hindu state of Maharashtra, looting their treasure. He returned to Delhi in 1296 murdered his uncle and father-in-law, then assumed power as Sultan.
The brief period of Khalji rule (1290-1320), saw important changes in the socio-economic and administrative structure of the Delhi sultanat. It also raised important questions regarding the nature of the state and polity in India.
The most important consequence of the rise to power of the Khaljis was the broadening of the social base of the ruling class.
The early Turkish sultans who are called the Ilbaris on the basis of their tribal origin, or Mamuluks, i.e. slave-officers, had believed in the virtual monopoly of important posts in the state by high born Turks. The Tajiks who had formed an important part of the nobility under Iltutmish had been largely eliminated shortly after his death. The presence of an Abyssinian, Yaqut, or an Indian Muslim, Raihan and of the Khaljis in important positions on the frontiers was more in the nature of exceptions rather than the rule.
Barani says that with the accession of the Khaljis, the empire passed from the hands of the Turks, and that the people of the city of Delhi who had for eighty years been governed by sovereigns of Turkish extraction, “were struck by admiration and amazement at seeing the Khaljis occupying the throne of the Turks.”
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Khiljis were vassals of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty) of Delhi and served the Sultan of Delhi, Ghiyasuddin Balban. Balban’s successors were murdered over 1289-1290, and the Mamluk dynasty succumbed to the factional conflicts within the Mamluk dynasty and the Muslim nobility. As the struggle between the factions razed, Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji led a coup and murdered the 17 year old Mamluk successor Muizuddin Qaiqabad – the last ruler of Mamluk dynasty.
Jalaluddin Firuz Khilji was accepted as sultan by a faction of Muslim amirs of Turkic, Persian, Arabic factions and Indian-Muslim aristocrats. However, Jalaluddin in his old age was unpopular and not universally accepted. During his six year reign (1290–96), some of Balban’s officers revolted due to his assumption of power and the subsequent sidelining of nobility and commanders serving the Mamluk dynasty. Jalaluddin suppressed the revolt and executed some commanders, then led an unsuccessful expedition against Ranthambhor and repelled a Mongol force on the banks of the Sind River in central India with the help of his nephew Juna Khan (Alauddin Khilji).
Juna Khan later to be known as Alauddin Khilji, was the nephew and son-in-law of Jalaluddin, raided the Hindu Deccan peninsula and Deogiri -the capital of the Hindu state of Maharashtra, looting their treasure. He returned to Delhi in 1296 murdered his uncle and father-in-law, then assumed power as Sultan.
The brief period of Khalji rule (1290-1320), saw important changes in the socio-economic and administrative structure of the Delhi sultanat. It also raised important questions regarding the nature of the state and polity in India.
The most important consequence of the rise to power of the Khaljis was the broadening of the social base of the ruling class.
The early Turkish sultans who are called the Ilbaris on the basis of their tribal origin, or Mamuluks, i.e. slave-officers, had believed in the virtual monopoly of important posts in the state by high born Turks. The Tajiks who had formed an important part of the nobility under Iltutmish had been largely eliminated shortly after his death. The presence of an Abyssinian, Yaqut, or an Indian Muslim, Raihan and of the Khaljis in important positions on the frontiers was more in the nature of exceptions rather than the rule.
Barani says that with the accession of the Khaljis, the empire passed from the hands of the Turks, and that the people of the city of Delhi who had for eighty years been governed by sovereigns of Turkish extraction, “were struck by admiration and amazement at seeing the Khaljis occupying the throne of the Turks.”
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The Khilji Revolution is a term that marks the overthrow of the ruling Mamluk or Slave dynasty and established the rule of the Khalji Dynasty. The impact of this revolution can be seen in the fact that it proved that the state authority was not the monopoly of a particular lineage. The impact of the Khalji Revolution marked new administrative measures that were introduced. Therefore, some significant reforms were introduced in the field of marketing and administration. The Khaljis declared the notion of kinship of their own. After the revolution, the post of Sultan became sovereign meaning that the Sultan need not perform under the supervision of Nobles and Ulemas.
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