The first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, Qutb-ud-Din Aybak, commissioned the column as a symbol of triumph in 1199. After Aybak died, while playing polo after just four years of rule, his successor ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. The Delhi Sultanate was the first Islamic state to be established in India. This ...

Before the establishment of the Mughal empire in the 16th century the region had seen the rise and fall of at least two major ...

Mughlai cuisine has as many vegetarian dishes as meaty ones. A new translation of a 16th century manuscript shows how ...

Over the centuries, Delhi has transformed from being a legendary capital to a thriving metropolis. How does the nation’s capital embody the mark of its diverse architectural and cultural legacy from ...

Some of India’s best-known dishes, like biryani and korma, trace their origins to Mughlai cuisine, while keema matar and ...

How do madarsas operate? Why did the Allahabad High Court strike down the law? What were the Supreme Court’s observations?

As the author moves forward into documented history, Delhi’s Sultanate period throws up all too familiar culinary delights such as pilaf, baklava and the ever-cherished biryani. The book ...

Sibghat recollected the story of Kakatiyan king Prataprudra facing the first invasions by the Delhi Sultanate in the Deccan. “Oru Gallu, literally meaning one rock, was later corrupted to Warangal.

Centuries of dynastic and then the Delhi Sultanate’s rule followed by the Portuguese annexation spanning over 400 years, have ...

Muhammad of Ghor invaded Delhi and established the Delhi Sultanate. In 1947, differences between Hindus and Muslims led to the partition of India by the departing British colonialists into the ...

This Maharashtra election is turning out to be messier than any held previously, however, few of us realise that the might ...