TY - BOOK AU - Jackson,Peter A. TI - The Delhi Sultanate: SN - 0521404770 U1 - 954.56023 PY - 1999/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Delhi (Sultanate) KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-350) and index; The Thirteenth Century 1. The background -- 2. From Ghurid province to Delhi Sultanate -- 3. Sultans and sources -- 4. Turks, Tajiks and Khalaj -- 5. The centre and the provinces -- 6. The Mongol threat -- 7. Raid, conquest and settlement The Zenith of the Sultanate 8. Sultans, saints and sources -- 9. The Khalji and Tughluqid nobility -- 10. An age of conquest -- 11. The Chaghadayid invasions -- 12. The military, the economy and administrative reform -- 13. Stupor mundi: the reign of Muhammad b. Tughluq -- 14. The sultans and their Hindu subjects -- 15. Stasis and decline: FIruz Shah and his successors ER -