Crossword Puzzle

DELHI SULTANATE

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ACROSS 1. Became an important city only in the twelfth century. 4. Muhammad Tughluq's administrative measures were a failure. His campaign into _______________ was a disaster. 5. The first set of campaigns along the _______________ of the Sultanate aimed at consolidating the hinterlands of the garrison towns. 8. During prayer, Muslims stand facing Mecca.In India this is to the west. This is called 10. Holders of the Iqta under the Khilji and Tughluq monarchs. 11. Iltutmish favoured their special slaves purchased for military service in the appointment as governors. These were called as ______________ in Persian. 13. He constructed a new garrison town named Siri for his soldiers. 14. Mongols invaded Transoxiana in north-east Iran in 1219 and the Delhi Sultanate faced their onslought soon after. 15. Delhi first became the capital of a kingdom under these, who were defeated in the middle of the twelfth century by the Chauhans of Ajmer.

DOWN 1. Coins minted at Delhi. 2. Privileges claimed on account of Birth. 3. By the end of his reign, 150 years after somewhat humble beginnings, the armies of the Delhi Sultanate had marched across a large part of the subcontinent. 4. Tax on cultivation and amounting to about 50 per cent of the peasant's produce. 6. He started his career as the manager of a small territory for him uncle in Bihar and eventually challenged and defeated the Mughal emperor Humayun. 7. Although it ruled for only fifteen years it introduced an administration that borrowed elements from Allauddin Khalji and made them ore efficient. 9. During the reign of Muhammad Tughluq, the residents of the old city were sent to the new capital of __________________ in the south. 12. The chronicler of the sultanate age, Minhaj-i Siraj, recognised that she was more able and qualified than all her brothers.