1206 CE
Consolidation of the Delhi Sultanate
Religion · Islam · South Asian Islam · Empire and state
The centralization of a sultanate in North India connected new Indo-Islamic elites and institutions; it does not describe the subcontinent’s full religious diversity.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
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- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
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- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
- 82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- 2026-09-23
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