TY - BOOK AU - Jackson Peter TI - The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History SN - 0-521-54329-0 U1 - 954.56 23 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University press N1 - Part I. The Thirteenth Century: 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 Part II. 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 -