Political situation on the eve of the Khalji dynasty's rise

Name: Political situation on the eve of the Khalji dynasty's rise
Start: 1282
End: 1289

Type Event Region India Time 1282–1289

Around 1282, under Balban's iron-fisted rule of the Delhi Sultanate, Khalji tribal military leader Jalal al-Din Khalji and his kinsmen accumulated po…

Timeline

1282–1285Karachi–Multan line · Northwest IndiaJalal al-Din Khalji gathered kinsmen cavalry in Multan, Sindh, and elsewhere, using frontier garrisons and local tax revenues as a resource base to gradually expand independent influence in the northwestern borderlands while maintaining nominal allegiance to Delhi.
1286–1289Delhi · North IndiaAfter Balban's son Prince Muhammad was killed fighting the Mongols in 1285, the Sultanate's central authority weakened; after Kaiqubad succeeded as a youth devoted to pleasure, deposed old nobles and officers formed indirect ties with Khalji forces in the northwest, and conditions for a coup matured.

Sources

The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans — Wolseley Haig (1928)
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Khalji dynasty https://www.britannica.com/topic/Khalji-dynasty