Turkic nobility of Delhi

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The Turkic nobility of Delhi were a powerful military-aristocratic elite in the Delhi Sultanate who often acted as kingmakers and resisted rulers that threatened their political dominance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf military aristocracy
nobility
political elite
associatedWithInstitution Delhi Sultanate
surface form: Delhi Sultanate court
collectiveName Chihalgani
Forty
conflictedWith centralizing sultans
non-Turkic elites
createdBy Iltutmish
culturalInfluence Persianate court culture
declineFactors centralization under later sultans
rise of non-Turkic military groups
economicResource iqta land grants
tax revenues
ethnicIdentity Turkic languages
surface form: Turkic
exertedInfluenceOn state policy of the Delhi Sultanate
succession to the Delhi throne
formedCoreOf early Delhi Sultanate ruling class
geopoliticalContext northern India
surface form: Northern India
governed provinces of the Delhi Sultanate
historicalPeriod 13th century
14th century
languageOfAdministration Persian
locatedIn Delhi Sultanate
maintained private military retinues
militaryFunction cavalry forces
slave-soldiers (ghulams)
opposedRuler Nasir-ud-din Mahmud (at times)
Razia Sultana
surface form: Razia Sultan
origin Afghanistan
Central Asia
politicalBehavior acted as kingmakers
participated in palace coups
resisted rulers who threatened their dominance
politicalPower high
powerBase Delhi
iqta territories
strategic forts
role kingmakers
military commanders
provincial governors
socialStatus elite
socialStructure patron–client networks
supportedRuler Iltutmish
Qutb al-Din Aibak
timeframe early Delhi Sultanate period
typicalReligion Sunni Islam

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Razia Sultana opposedBy Turkic nobility of Delhi