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3.2.4 Sultanate administration, economy and culture notes

4 notes, in reading order.

  1. 3.2.4.1Sultanate administration: central offices, iqta and provinces

    The Delhi Sultan ruled through a wazir and a set of departments (diwans), and paid his nobles and officers by assigning them iqtas, the revenue of a territory, in return for troops and order.

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  2. 3.2.4.2Sultanate economy: agrarian taxes, trade and towns

    Under the Sultanate, land revenue in cash tied villages to markets, towns grew, new technology (the Persian wheel, paper, the spinning wheel) spread, and silver tanka and copper jital coins carried trade.

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  3. 3.2.4.3Indo-Islamic architecture under the Sultanate

    Sultanate builders brought the true arch, dome, minaret and lime mortar from West and Central Asia, combined them with Indian craftsmanship and ornament, and produced the first Indo-Islamic style.

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  4. 3.2.4.4Sultanate literature: Amir Khusrau, Barani and the Persian chronicles

    Persian was the language of the Sultanate court, and its chronicles and poetry (Minhaj, Barani, Amir Khusrau and others) are the main sources for the period, alongside the Arabic travel account of Ibn Battuta.

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